Exodus 33:17-19 - "The LORD said to Moses, "I will also
do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight
and I have known you by name." Then Moses said, "I pray You, show me
Your glory!" And He said, "I Myself will make all My goodness pass
before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and I will
be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will
show compassion.""
When God promised Moses that He would show him His glory, He told him He would make His goodness pass before him. Gods glory is revealed in His goodness. We're told in Psalm 119:68 that God is good and does good. God Himself is good. He cannot be less good than He is and there can be no addition to Him. He is good and He does good. The first thing we see about God in the Bible is He created and He saw that it was good. The goodness of God was first seen in creation. When Moses said "Show me Your glory." God said, "My goodness shall pass before you." God is good all the time. His goodness does not depend on our circumstances. He is unchanging. The same yesterday, today, and forever. He is and always will be good. When trials or persecutions arise God is still good. Though I should lose my job, or my car may break down God is still good. God isn't only good when good things happen to us. He's good all the time.
God revealed His glory to us in the person of His Son. Jesus was the perfect picture of Gods goodness. Everything He did, every miracle He performed, every word He spoke He did and said out of His perfect goodness.
Psalm 107:8 - "Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!" Our response to Gods goodness should be thanksgiving. But Gods goodness is so consistent and so abundant in our everyday lives that we often withhold praise and gratitude because we don't even realize all the ways He is revealing His goodness. Gods goodness is revealed to us daily in things we don't even think about. God could have satisfied our hunger without food being pleasing to our taste, but He showed us His goodness by giving us a ton of different flavors (meats, fruits, vegetables, not to mention the combination's He allowed man to discover, things like pizza or chocolate)
He didn't only give us senses, but also those things that please them.
He didn't have to make this world as beautiful as He did, but the things that are pleasing to the eyes, mountains and rivers and sunsets, as well as the music of birds, and the sound of a creek, the scent of flowers, all the ways that God pleases our senses, through them He declares His goodness to us.
Psalm 145:9 - "The LORD is good to all, And His mercies are over all His works."
C.H. Spurgeon said, "We must never tolerate an instant unbelief as to the goodness of the Lord; whatever else may be questioned, this is absolutely certain, that Jehovah is good; His dispensations may vary, but His nature is always the same."
Psalm 84:11 - "No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly."
When God promised Moses that He would show him His glory, He told him He would make His goodness pass before him. Gods glory is revealed in His goodness. We're told in Psalm 119:68 that God is good and does good. God Himself is good. He cannot be less good than He is and there can be no addition to Him. He is good and He does good. The first thing we see about God in the Bible is He created and He saw that it was good. The goodness of God was first seen in creation. When Moses said "Show me Your glory." God said, "My goodness shall pass before you." God is good all the time. His goodness does not depend on our circumstances. He is unchanging. The same yesterday, today, and forever. He is and always will be good. When trials or persecutions arise God is still good. Though I should lose my job, or my car may break down God is still good. God isn't only good when good things happen to us. He's good all the time.
God revealed His glory to us in the person of His Son. Jesus was the perfect picture of Gods goodness. Everything He did, every miracle He performed, every word He spoke He did and said out of His perfect goodness.
Psalm 107:8 - "Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!" Our response to Gods goodness should be thanksgiving. But Gods goodness is so consistent and so abundant in our everyday lives that we often withhold praise and gratitude because we don't even realize all the ways He is revealing His goodness. Gods goodness is revealed to us daily in things we don't even think about. God could have satisfied our hunger without food being pleasing to our taste, but He showed us His goodness by giving us a ton of different flavors (meats, fruits, vegetables, not to mention the combination's He allowed man to discover, things like pizza or chocolate)
He didn't only give us senses, but also those things that please them.
He didn't have to make this world as beautiful as He did, but the things that are pleasing to the eyes, mountains and rivers and sunsets, as well as the music of birds, and the sound of a creek, the scent of flowers, all the ways that God pleases our senses, through them He declares His goodness to us.
Psalm 145:9 - "The LORD is good to all, And His mercies are over all His works."
C.H. Spurgeon said, "We must never tolerate an instant unbelief as to the goodness of the Lord; whatever else may be questioned, this is absolutely certain, that Jehovah is good; His dispensations may vary, but His nature is always the same."
Psalm 84:11 - "No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly."
Romans 8:32 - "He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us
all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?" God is good and
He gives only good. He causes all things to work together for good. God is eternally and entirely good.
Psalm 34:8 - "O taste and see that the LORD is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!"
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