Sitting here in in our RV at the coast in Trinidad, CA and all is quiet and peaceful. I’ve been pondering the goodness of God and how His goodness pours over into our daily lives. From the simple to the complex, the ordinary to the extraordinary, the little and the big…His goodness is always there. Like a warm blanket His goodness wraps around our lives in such a beautiful way. It’s always there, always faithful, never forsaking and absolutely never failing.

I personally have seen the goodness of God manifest in so many ways over my life, my family, my church, my city and our nation and the world. It would be so easy to constantly overlook those moments when God showed His love and mercy when there was no justification for it. But that’s just how much He loves us. He wants every person to know His goodness, not just what is seen from a distance in other people’s lives, but He wants us to see, know and experience in our personal lives more than anything.

As a child I saw His goodness and watched Him provide by multiplying food on our table, by coming home and finding bags of food on our front door step, all the way to current day and knowing around every corner His goodness manifesting in everyday life.

The goodness of God is pure, authentic and beautiful because that is who He is. He wants to do the same in each one of us. We’ve been created in His image, in His likeness…think about it…He is The Creator and He created us to be like Him. Jesus displayed this so beautifully when He was on the earth in human form. Jesus was so simple, loving, humble, giving, pure, raw and unequivocally authentic when He displayed His goodness. It’s no wonder that it is the goodness of God that leads us to repentance.

He wants to do extraordinary things through us and in order for Him to receive the glory for those exploits, we must know and recognize His goodness in our lives. He uses the simple things in our lives to train us for the extraordinary things we will do as His children.

So my challenge today is this: how is the goodness of God revealed in your life? How does He show up for you? How do you display His goodness in your own life and in the lives around you? Take a moment and recognize the simple goodness of God in the little and the big, in the easy times and the hard times…He’s always there, always waiting, and always loving.

Veronica