I am feeling confident lately.
Not because any circumstances have changed, not because I can see how everything is going to work out, and not because I am convinced that bad or hard circumstances will stay far away. No, I have confidence and peace because of who my God is. Specifically, because He is good.
God's goodness is part of His character. He has always been good. He will always be good. He cannot not be good because it is who He is. And, who He is will never change.
His goodness gives me a peaceful confidence that no matter what my circumstances look like, no matter what I may be feeling, and no matter what uncertainties may lie in the future, my life is safely in His hands. Nothing will come to my doorstep without having first passed-through the permission of His goodness.
God's Word assures us that His goodness will provide what He knows is best for our lives.
Look at the following verses:
"Since He did not spare even His own Son but gave Him up for us all, won't He also give us everything else?" Romans 8:32 (NLT)
"If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask Him!" Matthew 7:11 (NLT)
"The Lord will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right." Psalm 84:11 (NLT)
A summary of these three verses would be:
Since God was willing to give us the most costly of all gifts - His Son - shouldn't we therefore trust that He will not withhold any other good thing from our lives? And, since we as sinful and imperfect people know how to give good gifts to one another, isn't it logical that our perfect and holy Father will be far more able to give us good gifts?!?! Live your life unto Jesus - as rightly, as innocently, and as purely as you know how - and He will withhold no good thing from you!
Because He is good, we can have confidence - even in the midst of uncertainty.
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