The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
To the person who seeks Him.
To the person who seeks Him.
Lamentations 3:25 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
God’s love is the attribute
people focus on the most right now, to the extent that they forget or even
reject the idea that He is also just and holy (and therefore must punish sin).
He is also expected, because of His overarching love, to bless everyone and let
everyone go to heaven. Unfortunately, that just isn’t true. Everyone receives
blessings and goodness from God in some way (otherwise we wouldn’t be alive),
but His full goodness and blessing only come to those who seek and wait for
Him, i.e. for those who believe and trust in Him. We have to be “in” Him, and
have Him in us, to have access to His gifts and goodness. If we reject Him we
are also rejecting His greatest blessings and much of His goodness. They come
together. I have heard the analogy of a wealthy man who died without heirs so
his extensive wealth and property was to be auctioned off. The first item up
for auction was a simple portrait of the man’s son which went for a low bid,
but once it was sold the auctioneer packed up because in the will the man
determined that whoever bough the picture of his son received his full
inheritance. It is so with God; we must receive His Son in order to receive His
full inheritance which includes His goodness. Have you received His Son? Do you
seek and wait for Him? Do you experience His goodness and blessing?
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