Psalm 40:5

O Lord my God, you have performed many wonders for us. Your plans for us are too numerous to list. You have no equal. If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds, I would never come to the end of them.

Sometimes in life we may get a little down or frustrated. We may even become like “Chicken Little” and think the sky is falling. If we step back for a moment and look, I would think we could think of more good things in our life than bad.

Take for example these words we hear from Psalm 40:5 “If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds, I would never come to the end of them”. Let’s just suppose we started listing all the wonderful deeds God has done in your life this year so far. Would those wonderful deeds outweigh the bad or negative things that have happened?

I can only speak for myself in saying, I think there is a whole lot more good than the bad or the uncertainties I am facing now. We all have bad things happen to us and we all have good things happen to us. The biggest decision we have to make is which one are we going to focus on the most, the bad or the good?

The true goodness of God has no end. It goes on forever and ever. Many times, throughout the Bible, the phrase; “The Lord is good, and His mercy endures forever” is declared. The strategy of the enemy is for us to question the goodness of God. His plan started in the Garden of Eden with Adam & Eve and it continues today. If he can get us to question God's goodness then he can get us to not trust our Heavenly Father.

My prayer for you this month is for you to rediscover through the Holy Spirit the goodness of a God who loves you more than you can imagine. No matter what happens or doesn’t happen moving forward remember to focus on the goodness of God and all the blessings he brings our way. Even if at the time the blessing doesn’t really feel like or look like a blessing.

Try counting your blessings this month and name them one by one, I almost guarantee you will your blessings will outweigh the difficulties.

Blessings, Bro Greg