'Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.' (James 1:17)
Over the last few days, God has done some amazing things in my life.
Why did you wait till now God? Why did you not give me these signs before? These were just some of my initial reactions. Don't get me wrong, I was very pleased and happy with what God had done - I even decided to blog about it. But a big part of me was treating this week as a sort of one off where God had decided to show me his love for me while the rest of the time he doesn't really care. But that is a load of rubbish.
I struggle to keep on top of everything going on in my life, let alone what is happening in the lives of people around me. God, however, knows every single person who ever has been and ever will be. Not only that, but he made them! And loves them. I can't even begin to describe how incredible he is.
He loves me so much that he sent his son to die for me! He has made me a place in eternity. And it's not because of anything I have done. I pushed God away as I grew up, wrote him off as ridiculous, an imaginary friend for the less intelligent even. I was a pretty horrible person. And yet, God still made himself known to me. And extended his offer of salvation to me. Amazing grace.
I could go on for a long time talking about various aspects of God's goodness, but even that wouldn't even touch the surface. My point, however, is that I couldn't be much further from the truth if I said that God is giving me a 'one week only' display of love and goodness.
Far too often I take God for granted, take credit for the good things, focus on the negatives, concentrate on praying for things to happen and don't stop to praise God for all (or indeed anything) he has done for me. But I would like to change that. First stop, I shall pray God would help me give thanks more, but secondly, I'm going to try to regularly post here about some of the good things that bring glory to God's almighty name. And there will be many.
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