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The Lord is Good to Me

Sometimes I am blown away at how good the Lord is to us, how ready to forgive, how willing to speak into our lives, how glad to lift us up when we are good and even when we are not so good. The Bible is filled with verses about how the Lord is good to us. Here one that I really like…

Praise the LORD!

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good!

His faithful love endures forever.

Who can list the glorious miracles of the LORD?

Who can ever praise Him enough?

There is joy for those who deal justly with others

and always do what is right.

Psalm 106:1-3

New Living Translation

I am sometimes in a fog and do not think of all the amazing things that happen in my life. The fog leads me to be unaware that what has happened is a real miracle of God. I can list some of the miracles of the Lord, but I know that some pass over my head.

What I do know in a general sort of way if not totally cognizant is that I am blessed. Even if I could not think of a single personal good thing that God has done for me specifically I know that even the words, “good things God has done for me specifically” are actually incorrect in the true sense of the expression. Whatever God has done corporately for His people are individual gifts of good for me. I have heard it said that even if there had only been one person on earth Jesus would have did all he did for that one person. So, He came to reach the lost, to teach a new way to love and be loved, and finally to put Himself as a living sacrifice on the cross…jointly for all and singularly for me. Amazing!

And, lest we should forgot that this sacrifice…which is the sacrifice of the New Covenant reminiscent of the temple sacrifices of the Old Testament…is the perfect sacrifice that assures His people of eternal salvation. In the OT an unblemished lamb was offered for atonement of sin and then slaughtered by the Levites as part of assigned job as the priests of the temple. On the NT we also have that perfect “Lamb” whose blood washes our sins away in the tradition that was foretold in the Old Testament. We recall this when we have communion. Every time I hold the elements in my hand I remember His sacrifice and celebrate that the Lord is good to me individually!

Written by Corinne Mustafa