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Wednesday... He is more than good.


Wednesday... He is more than good. Yes He is.

In my prayer time this morning I said that God is good and it hit me that He is more than good. Yes He is  good but He is more than just good. There are people that I know that are good people. I enjoy being with them, around them but God is more than that. He really is.

David writes in Psalm 8:1 (NIV), "Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens." Majestic is way, way better that just good and we need to acknowledge that. 

The MESSAGE says in verses 3-4, "I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why bother with us? Why take a second look our way?" And those are very good questions. But He does.

David goes on in verses 5-8, "Yet we've narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden's dawn light. You put us in charge of your Genesis-charge, Made us lords of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild, Birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the oceans deep." And then verse 9, "God, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world."

And this brilliant, majestic God sent His Son, His only Son to this earth as a baby because He loved us, because we mattered to Him. He took a second look at us and sent His Son. That is what we are celebrating. 

Yes, He is good but He is more than good and He gave to us the greatest gift that anyone has given because we matter to Him. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 


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  1. Indeed our Lord is more than just a good because He atones for (me) us, allow us to live even though He has paid the price, some of us are still sinners

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