Sunday, January 23, 2011

A God Who Is Good

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him! (Matthew 7:11)

Common sense tells us that if a son asks his father for a loaf or a fish it is because they are hungry. What good father would give the child a stone or a snake? Only a father who was sadistic or does not care for His children. It is interesting that Jesus says our Heavenly Father gives to His children...good things...when they ask Him. This asking is significant. Do people who are not the children of God, and there are many who are not born of the Spirit of God, receive good things from God? Do they even think about Him to ask? The Bible teaches us that God's goodness falls on the righteous and the unrighteous alike. The difference is that the unrighteous do not recognize the source. They do not have a Father in Heaven and they don't know what to do with the goodness of God. They are like dogs handling holy things and pigs with pearls. They don't know that God is good. How much more should the children of God value good gifts from a good God? God's good gifts is ours for the asking...not the taking. God is good. A God who is good is the one and only God. And since there is only one God, aren't we glad that He is good! A God who is good is the one and only God. Let's live like we believe that.

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