March 16,2024
Being Established In The Goodness Of God-Why The Church Is Suffering
By Pastor Kim D’souza
By Pastor Kim D’souza
Do You Really Believe in God’s Goodness?
Most Christians find it easy to believe that God is great. But, only a fraction of them believe that God is good, and that He is good to them!
This is the reason why the Body of Christ is suffering. Because, though we say with our mouths that “God is good”, but at the heart level, we really don’t believe it.
Child of God, the goodness of God has to be a firm foundation in your life. You need to be convinced in your heart and mind that God is good because its only on the goodness of God that faith can hinge on
God’s goodness is an established truth
If you ever arrive late for work, you cannot give the excuse that the gravitational forces did not work and hence you got late! Chances are that you will be fired for such an excuse.
Similarly, God’s goodness does not fail. No matter what happens in your life, God is good, and that doesn’t change. Rather than questioning God’s goodness, you should examine your life and find out what is going wrong.
Self- Test: How do you know if you really believe in God’s goodness?
Recently, I heard the Holy Spirit say, “If you hear people talking about their traumas and bad memories from their past repeatedly, they don’t really believe in My goodness.”
When you are convinced of the goodness of God, you will not be filled with memories of sad moments in your life because you will look forward for your future knowing God’s plans are for your good (Jeremiah 29:11) .
Psalm 145:6-7 says, “Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, And I will declare Your greatness. They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, And shall sing of Your righteousness.”
Yes, unfair things may have happened to you in the past, but you need to move on. Rather than meditating on all that went wrong, you need to meditate on how God has been good to you.
The people who are convinced of His goodness, when they have a memory to talk about, are not talking about how everything didn’t go right, but their memory utters of His great goodness.
How can we be established in His goodness?
One practical way to be established in the goodness of God is to find every scripture that talks about the goodness of God and start meditating on it.
God is good; it’s His nature and character. The more you meditate on and declare God’s goodness, the more it will become an established truth in your life.
The goodness of God is unchangeable and unshakeable
Have you seen how water drips out when a wet cloth is squeezed? When situations come to squeeze you, praise must drip out of you because you believe that God is still good.
“And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.” And the LORD said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence.” Exodus 33:18-19
We see in the above verses how when Moses asked God to show him His glory, God said He would cause His goodness to pass before Moses, not His might or power, but His goodness.
This season, can we make the decision not to dwell in the past any longer? Let us move forward with our gaze fixed on the goodness of God.
No matter what happens in your life, God is good, and that doesn’t change.
