June 11, 2013

Psalm 34:10 — The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: But they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

Do you ever feel that there are times when this verse just doesn’t stand up? There’s all kinds of good things that the people of God seem to lack. Sometimes, (shame on me), I even whine a little myself … but it really hits home when I look around and see friends struggling with ill-health, unemployment, and especially the misery of broken relationships.

I have to remind myself that I have a tendency to think that I know what constitutes my “good”. God’s definition of our good is different from ours own. As I sit here writing I know it’s foolish for me even to think I know what His definition is. I think, though, that one piece of it is for me to be conformed to the image of His Son, and all that He does in my life or allows to happen to me may safely be assumed to promote that great good.

It’s all about the relationship

Genesis 1:26-27 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them

Genesis 2:18 — And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

God made man to be like Him. Part of that “being like Him” includes having relationships. And God gives me what I need to bring me close to Him and to other people – not always what I want, or think I need.