Word of the Day
My kindness, My goodness is forever and unchanging. It draws you, it leads you to repentance. Like the Good Shepherd I am, I never desire anything other than good and I always, without fail, lead you to green pastures of abundant life.
Goodness is perfected in Me and worked out in you with long-suffering mercy and grace. All goodness ever to exist comes from Me first for I am the beginning and end of all that is good.
There is none good besides Me. I am good in My character, My essence, and I possess the highest degree of whatever is pure, lovely, upright and worthy of thought. When I tell you to think on whatever is pure and lovely I am asking you to think like Me and on Me. My attributes of goodness are immeasurable and endure forever (Psalms 52:1). All My acts of kindness, charity and benevolence simply radiate from Me as delightful, visible manifestations of My very personhood, which is goodness.
Beloved I am opening your heart today enabling you to understand My goodness, to experience it, to revel in it as it flows from the wellspring of My very being. There is no way you can ever exhaust the bountiful treasure contained in Me. I keep on giving and giving until complete perfection and sanctification is manifest in you—until you set at My table on that day arrayed in My glory.
Let My goodness govern your life, your thoughts and your hope for a future. Many times I chasten those I love and justice has its way. Does this negate My goodness? NO! Justice flows out of My righteousness. The very essence of goodness I am drives justice giving way to chastening. I chasten because I am good. It would be wrong and totally against who I am to leave you in a state or a place able to cause you harm. My goodness demands justice in order to protect you from harm and make you perfect as I am perfect. I never do anything with wrong intentions. I am good and I do good (Psalm 119:68).
My goodness is separate from My mercy. Mercy I give. Mercy I exercise in compassion toward those who deserve punishment. My goodness is given to those who deserve nothing and have no goodness in of their selves. It is something I impart as an act of My very nature as an outward manifestation of who I am.
I have proved My goodness by giving My precious Son, by which you have been saved from eternal destruction. Seeing I have gone to such great lengths, do you think I would stop giving now? It will never be. I have already given the most precious thing to Me and I will continue to give by being who I am: bountiful, protective, provisional, comforting, assuring, loving, benevolent, charitable, abundant, and infinitely communicative. Listen closely to the beating of My heart for you today. It is full of majestic pleasure and radiating with joy and gladness over you. Receive My infinite goodness. Receive Me without reserve. Today is a new beginning, a new time to revel in My goodness.
For the Lord God is a Sun and Shield; the Lord bestows [present] grace and favor and [future] glory (honor, splendor, and heavenly bliss)! No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. Lord of hosts, blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts in You [leaning and believing on You, committing all and confidently looking to You, and that without fear or misgiving]! (Psalms 84:10-12 Amplified)
Prayer
The Lord is my light and my life. He is my salvation. I trust in Him and Him alone. He is faithful when I am faithless. His kindness is ever directed toward me without fail or judgment. He is all goodness, therefore; His goodness is in me and being perfected in me. I am growing in every attribute of the Lord daily and without fail. I think on the Lord and my thoughts are like His; pure, lovely and upright. All of the instruction and chastening of the Lord in my life is beneficial and bringing about true revelation and understanding. I receive the goodness of the Lord into my life today in every area. Lord your goodness overwhelms me and flows in and out of my life. Amen.
Reflect and Journal
- What things in your life have you had trouble reconciling to the goodness of God?
- Have you been dwelling on things or parts of your life in ways not pure, lovely or upright? Confess, repent and put your thoughts on Him and His Word.
- Take time to let Him love on you in these areas of struggle and write what He says.