Infinitely and Inconceivably: Good Our God Is An Awesome God

We ought never to have low thoughts of God. His eye is ever on His children for good, not evil. While He allows the “furnaces of afflictions” in the lives of His heirs of mercy, these are only used to prune and narrow making us more and more like our older Brother Jesus. Everything allowed in the lives of God’s children is beneficial. The thing which occurs is perhaps not “good” but what it produces is good. If God is our God our souls are safe in His all-powerful hands. And His mercy is never diminishing for it is as great as His power. As we grow in the knowledge of Him, we love Him more readily and trust Him more fully. Indeed, the more we know Him the more we love Him, and the more we love Him the more we desire to serve Him – following in Jesus’ footsteps. His servant heart gave His life as a “ransom for many”. Matthew 20:25-27 (NIV) tells us: Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave– just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” 

The world offers its “trinkets” and wooings that never fully satisfy rather keep us longing for more. Enough is never enough. But God fills fully – totally and completely – as water fills a cup – no space lacking. The world cannot bring peace in trouble rather trouble in peace – but God can as we lean on Him and not our own understanding. In allowing Him to direct our paths, His great mercy saves us and His power supports us.  

God sanctifies, enables, equips and fully satisfies. Nothing this world offers can fill the void in the human heart or advance it apart from Him. Try as hard as we might, these paste gems will never fully satisfy the seeking soul – and they were never meant to. That which elevates the soul must be more excellent than the soul. That’s why we see so many needy people as they seek to fill their empty cups with the “rocks” of this world and not the living water which alone fills fully and completely. Man in a high place is still a man, just as the one in the low place. You can “fancy up” a pig, but he is still a pig. His being has not changed. But those in Christ are new creations – “the old has gone the new has come!” - Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:17B. The Great Apostle ends with this section in 2 Corinthians with this amazing Truth in verse 21: “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Jesus is what every soul needs. Every soul.