“Shout
for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with
gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that
the Lord is God. It is he who made
us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Enter
his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him
and praise his name. For
the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.”
(Psalm 100:1-5)
How many of us could see evidences of God’s miracles? When we see
them, we often rejoice. However, when we don’t see any of God’s miracles, we may
think that He has forsaken us, or that we are worthless people to become
followers of Jesus Christ because of our unrighteous deeds. In other words, some
of us may believe that God is very judgemental, that one mistake can change how
He views us and our acceptance in Christ and our condemnation go back and forth
according to our deeds.
Is it worthless, then, to make a commitment to follow Jesus Christ
until the end of the time, since our righteousness cannot even match to God’s?
No, but we should rather believe that God has His unconditional and steadfast
love over us. Because of His love, “His
faithfulness continues through all generations.” If God’s love is so
conditional, why then He sent His only beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to crucify
Himself on behalf of us? He surely could have destroyed us in our first failure
of becoming righteous as He knows everything. However, He didn’t. Instead, He wanted
to restore everything into what it was in the beginning of His creation (Genesis 1-2), so He sacrificially sent
Jesus Christ into the world to die for our sins (John 3:16-17).
God showed how much he
loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have
eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he
loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. (1 John 4:9-10)
John Goldingway states that God’s goodness involves His commitment
and His truthfulness. These attributes of His tell the reason that He is good.
My testimony tells of His goodness, also. I have been pretending to be a
follower of Jesus for several months, but I had a strong encounter with God. I
sensed that God was prompting me to know Jesus better. Now, I serve the Kingdom
of God in different ministries and join Him as a co-worker to bring people to Christ.
The Son is the image
of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things
were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether
thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created
through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold
together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the
firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the
supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and
through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or
things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Once you were
alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil
behaviour. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through
death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from
accusation—if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move
from the hope held out in the gospel… (Colossians 1:15-23)
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