The psalmist said, \u2018Examine and see how good the Lord is.\u2019<\/i> Pay particular attention to the words \u2018examine\u2019<\/i> and \u2018good\u2019.<\/i> What you believe about God manifests itself in the way you live. What does it mean to be \u2018good\u2019<\/i>? It means living up to the best you know. And since God is omniscient (all-knowing), He knows what your best is! <\/p>\n
His goodness is beyond all question. Because God is good\u2014not nice nor tolerant, but really, practically, consistently good\u2014your cup of well-being, security, peace, confidence and joy can be overflowing! A good God cannot break His promise, abandon His children, or fail to love and bless them. You can be sure that in every circumstance He will treat you in the best possible way. When your life seems to be falling apart, sometimes it\u2019s difficult to see God\u2019s goodness or feel that things will get better. That\u2019s when you must use the faith God has already given you, and by an act of your will, trust Him (see\u00a0Romans\u00a012:3). <\/p>\n
A wise pastor was asked by a troubled parishioner, \u2018Pastor, does the world look like a wreck to you too?\u2019 <\/p>\n
He replied, \u2018Yes, like the wreck of a bursting seed!\u2019 <\/p>\n
Without undergoing the \u2018wreck\u2019 stage, during which its world literally falls apart, the acorn could never give life to an oak tree. So embrace God\u2019s will in this trial because it\u2019s \u2018good, acceptable and perfect\u2019<\/i> (Romans\u00a012:2\u00a0ESV<\/sup>), regardless of how it feels to you right now. Ultimately, you\u2019ll \u2018see how good the Lord is. Happy is the person who trusts in him\u2019!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The psalmist said, \u2018Examine and see how good the Lord is.\u2019 Pay particular attention to the words \u2018examine\u2019 and \u2018good\u2019. What you believe about God manifests itself in the way you live. What does it mean to be \u2018good\u2019? It means living up to the best you know. And since God is omniscient (all-knowing), He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}