Good Things

I recently read Psalm 126 and I was struck by the idea that I don’t always live my life on the presupposition that God WILL provide good ‘fortune.’ I believe that God gives good gifts, but I think that I have begun to believe God gives little good treasures to help me survive what I perceive at times is a ‘yucky life.’

Psalm 126 tells me that God gives good fortune, a good life. God gives so good that it is overwhelming and causes tears of joy. Admittedly, the Psalmist does talk about their fortune being RE-stored, about sowing in tears, about going out to sow weeping. Everything wasn’t always peachy keen. And yet I sense from the Psalmist hope and the confident belief that God is in control even during the weeping. Even through their tears they have continued to sow, to believe that life is worth living, and trying, and working, and pushing forward. Good things are around the corner.

It made me wonder:
When was the last time I cried because I saw life was so overwhelmingly good?
Do I push forward, working, sowing and believing that God has Overwhelming Good just around the corner?
When life is hard do I still exercise hope and allow hope to grant me joy?
Have I bought into the world’s definition of good and as a result, have missed seeing the good fortune God has already blessed me?
Am I willing to proclaim and declare that the Good I have been given comes from the hand of God Almighty?

I often say God is good. And I DO believe it to be true. I also believe God does give good gifts.  And now, I am praying that I will have eyes to see and a heart that KNOWS how overwhelming is the good in the life God has given me.