God is Good

God is Good – Eight Three

     There is one unmistakeable fact and that is that God is good.  In fact it is His goodness that enables Him to extend grace to mankind even though we do not deserve it.  James says that every good and perfect gift comes from above.  When God looks at the 7.2 billion people on this planet and knows what they say, think and do it is amazing He doesn`t just blow this planet apart.  It is his goodness and love that prevents Him from bringing a Noah kind of judgment.

     Did you know that God waited 1656 years before He destroyed the earth in the flood.  What is even more amazing that out of the multitude of people living during that time He only found Noah with the faith to carry the Ark to completion.  Estimates of the size of the population based on reproduction today would place the number in the billions.  Yet Noah was the only righteous man. 

     God is looking today for a Noah, Daniel or Joseph.  He is looking for a Moses or Deborah.  God in His goodness is looking for someone to stand in the gap for those who will not look for God.  Noah preached for a hundred years to the people of His day.  They thought he was a crazy old man until the first rain drop to fall and by then it was too late.  Do not wait respond to God`s goodness before it is too late. 

     The fact remains.  When Jesus comes back it will be in the twinkling of an eye, a millionth of a second.  You will not have time to think, breathe or utter a word.  In that moment everything will change and this wonderful age of grace and goodness of God will end.  God is good and He will hold out until His timing is perfect.  So respond to the goodness of Lord while there is time.