God is so good!
what an answer to
our prayers!
we have all said these words
at one time or another,
especially when the
answer to our prayers
is the answer for which
we had prayed.
but what if the answer
is not
so obvious?
or when the answer is
no?
is He still good when one
hears silence?
what about
wait?
is He any less good when
the prognosis is bleak
or the cancer invades
or the one so loved dies
or the child still runs
from His arms of love
or the job is lost
or home is lost
and so on.
and who is to say what is
positive or negative,
good or bad,
anyway?
for without
hearing the symphony
in absolute completion,
who can decide that one
particular line or part is
not good?
we simply cannot see what
our loving Abba sees.
our vision
our minds
our emotions
are in this
dimension
of humanness
and only the One
who composed
the score and
wrote the
manuscript
can know how
one circumstance
or event which
appears so
tragic
will impact
another life,
another story,
in ways so stunning
as to take one's breath away.
and that is not to make
light of the tragic in the
tragedy, for pain hurts.
deeply.
it is just to say that we
cannot see what He sees
and know what He knows.
He is good all the time.
no matter what.
no matter when.
no matter where.
yet knowing this truth
is not to say the heart
will never question His goodness.
it simply means
we know that
we know that He
is
good,
for good
is the essence
of who God is.
"Let my soul be at rest again,
for the Lord has been good to me."
Psalm 116:7
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