THE UNSEARCHABLE GOODNESS OF GOD V

“YOU are good, and do good; teach me your statutes,” (Psalms 119:68). Reader, I pray that as you read these few lines today you may somehow experience the unfailing goodness of God.

I agree that it is not easy to see His goodness when things are not going well in life; when we go through rough patches; when things look ugly and hope is fading; when pain seems endless. But I ask you reader: is it not in the midst of these trying times that the goodness of our God hides itself?

In the Bible Psalms 119 is a song celebrating the Word of God. The composer of this song cannot stop praising God for giving His word to His people; for providing His people with instructions for living. He then turns to himself and testifies to God.  He says; “Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word,” (verse 67). The psalmist seems to remember a time when he went astray; wandering away from the ways of God. Life must have been easy to him then; things were working out. He kept going on and on without God until he was afflicted; until things changed and afflictions took over in his life.

Is this not true of us in life reader? At times we wander away from the things of God that we have been taught from youth; we discover ourselves when we grow and go to college or university; we live reckless and ungodly lives; we live anyhow and anywhere.
But then afflictions come (and they will always come); things turn against us; things no longer work out. But reader, I like this psalmist. In the Psalm he implies that in the midst of his afflictions, he turned to the word of his God. Not only did he turn to it; he ‘kept’ it. The word was always there even as he wasted his life in sin; it was waiting for him to take enough afflictions, and to turn to God.

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