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I wish I could call this post "Monday Musings" because that sounds a whole lot better than "Wednesday Musings."  Hmm.  Well, I guess I'll just call it something entirely different...to be determined at the end of this post. 

 Came across Genesis 32:12 yesterday...and have been thinking about it since.  "And you said, 'I will surely do you good.'"  

 Everything about God is good.  Everything that happens that is "bad" in our lives, is just "hard."  The enemy intends things for bad, but the Lord uses things for good (Rom. 8:28).  God can only be good, do us good, be our good and...here's the kicker.  Nothing we do can earn His goodness.  God in His kindness desires good for his children.  Psalm 84:11 says: "For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withold from those who walk uprightly."  Walking uprightly.  We can't do that on our own, (therefore we can't earn), because the only one who is actually good is God alone (Luke 18:19) and so anything we do to walk uprightly is Christ in us.  

 The only good in me is Jesus. 

 If that is true, then I should be praising the one who sent His Son Jesus, so that I can be adopted by the one good God, and be loved as Jesus is loved by God.  I should trust with all my heart that the Father is working good in my life!  I am a fallen, evil person, who is loved by God because of Christ.  Love this verse in Matthew: "If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! (7:11)."

 I have a problem trusting God's goodness.  I try to take what is hard in life, see it as "bad" and make it "good"...on my own.  The only thing is, I can't live through hard without Christ.  I can't make hard "go away"...but I can trust God's goodness.  Back to Genesis 32:12.  God says I will "surely" do you good.  He knows everything that will happen to us.  He is taking care of us, leading us and helping us.  But he loves for us to remind Him of His word.  He gave us His Word as a gift, and what an encouragement we have to read from it and be reminded of his character.  

 In a nutshell, I don't do well with anything hanging in the air (well, except prepositions, haha..."you wanna come with?!" #midwest) and lately, there have been lots of unknowns.  Isn't this the case for everyone at different times?  I just feel like our family has been hanging for a long time.  I am ready to obey what the Lord wants us to do...only I feel I don't know what that is.  I am ready to see fruit of pursuing Him...only that takes time.  I am ready to see how he provides in a number of ways for things that, without His grace, can make me extremely anxious.  I have only to remind God of who he is.  GOOD.  He is waiting for me to trust Him.  Trust his timing and plan.  Go forth with joy, knowing that He is faithful in our past, and will be faithful in our future.  I need to confess that I often ask without full belief that he would actually do that good for me. I ask knowing he can do it, but with a sense (wrong sense) of he "won't" do it.  

 James 1:6: "But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven by the wind."

 My prayer today is that I would give God my anxiety and lack of belief (for it is heavy), and ask him to show me his goodness and care.  That I would walk in faith and with the power of the Spirit.  That I would know and hold to His Word, and be encouraged.    

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