Tag Archives: Goodness

The Apple Of My Eye

My child, My joy, My prize. You are My beloved. You are the work of My hands. I have formed you and called you to be Mine. Know this for certain, that My love is an everlasting love. It will not cease. I desire that you know Me, really know Me and trust your life with Me. Realize how great a love I have for you. Never doubt My love. You are the apple of My eye and I adore you. Even though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, fear no evil, for I am with you. My rod and staff they comfort you. I prepare a table in the presence of your enemies. I have anointed your head with oil, your cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy will follow you all all the days of your life and you will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23

Joy and Peace

My child, I want people to be encouraged. I desire joy and peace. This world has a lot of negative forces and the evil one would love to drag you down. But the fruit of My Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. You have crucified your flesh. Now walk by My Spirit.

Galatians 5:22-25

God Desires Our Good

Unquestionably, God wants good for us here, but His plan ultimately revolves around our union with Him later. So He has designed things such that His purpose can only come to fruition as we receive Christ as Lord and Savior, and then enter into a lifelong pursuit of God in spite of our human penchant to choose self in place of Him.

So our ongoing battle with the flesh, as we’re confronted daily by a world steeped in sin, boils down to one thing only: choice with teeth, decision with real meaning. And this is precisely why God had to allow sin to play such a major role in our decision-making.

But how could God (whose very essence is goodness) give evil the right to exist at all, much less allow it to have such overwhelming and destructive power over mankind? Again, choice is the answer to this age-old question. In His unfathomable wisdom, God has ordained that His children choose Him freely—and the more difficult the choice, the better He likes our yes. It makes the value we place on Him all the more meaningful.

Excerpted from: Free from the Power of Sin: The Keys to Growing in God in Spite of Yourself