God Loves to Do us Good
I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul. (Jeremiah 32:40-41)
Can you imagine God, with all His heart and soul, with all that He is, joyfully, delightedly, doing good and showering grace upon grace, to sinners like you and me? Does that even make any cosmic sense?
That, my friends, is the greatest shock of the universe: that the holy, unblemished God, would give His life, for His precious sheep. Sinful and spiritually filthy though we are, He dives in the dirt, to have us washed, to be with Him in eternity.
What a God.
May our lives be filled with the truth of this promise. May our hearts be so sensitive to His working in us moment-by-moment. May we taste the goodness and joy of God in our lives, that we would never want to stray away from Him.
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We are vessels made to be occupied by one thing only. We can deny self and choose Christ, or deny Christ and choose self. It will always be one or the other.