When I looked up the word 'good' in my Bible, it simply said "God brings it out of a bad circumstance" and my first thought was when I was given away. See, all those years I thought bad toward my mother: Now, I was given away at three months...but I found out one of my sisters was given away one HOUR after birth. So you can see, God has been good to me!
Try and remember the GOOD God has done by bringing you out of a bad circumstance!
You know the story of Joseph...his brothers doing the "dirty deed". And Genesis 50:20 says "But as for you, ye thought evil against me but God meant it unto good; to bring to pass as it is this day, to save much people alive." So I can imagine Joseph telling his brothers, "God has been GOOD to me!"
Can I tell you how God has been good to me?
See, as I look back over my life and all the stuff I've done...the life that I leave in the past and only remember to remind myself that I don't ever want to live that way again. Can I say, "God, You have been GOOD to me!!!"
If you ever take the time to read the book of John, around the 11th chapter, we read about two sisters and a brother. The brother was sick and when Jesus heard that this brother named Lazarus was sick, he said "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God that the Son of God might be glorified thereby."
So I can just imagine again, on that day when He spoke "Lazarus, come forth!", old Lazarus, probably said "God has been GOOD to me"!!
In closing, I hope you'll remember what Paul had to tell us in Romans 8:28: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose"!
The point of this all is for us to understand that there is nothing in life that you may encounter, that God can't bring good out of it!
Some things are for your good, so that you can look back or even look AT and with no hesitation say with all BOLDNESS....
GOD HAS BEEN GOOD TO ME!!!
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