#godisloving

Amidst everything that is happening around us right now, we should always remember to praise God above all things. Our verse today is all about just praising God for all the marvelous things He has done. It is indeed great to just give time to praise Him alone and thank Him for all the great things He has done for us. Nothing about us, but only just Him. 

The Psalmist of this chapter has been talking about encouraging one another in acknowledging God’s gracious acts for us. We do not need any reason to praise God and thank Him because even from the moment we were born, it was already grace and a gift. The moment we succeed in our lives here on earth, it was His love and mercy that sustained us. Now, even our salvation and our after life is His grace, mercy, love and goodness all together that saved us. 

Praise God for He is existentially good, gracious, merciful, loving and faithful. Praise God for everything that He has done for all of us. From Him stretching His hands to meet our halfway stretched hand for help, to comforting us every time we feel bad and sad. Our praises and adoration belongs to Him alone. Indeed He is good and great. He made all things good and wonderful. He made us new and holy. All blessings flow from Him. 

Praise God for He is existentially good. He is existentially good because He doesn’t need our praises and adoration to be good. He doesn’t need to be good for us all, but He is good by existence. His goodness does not depend on how much we can praise Him but it is because He is good existentially. If He is not good existentially and His goodness depends on how much we can praise Him, then we are doomed for we cannot praise Him enough. However, praise God for He is existentially good and He does not need our praises and adoration to be good. Indeed He is great and good! His love endures forever. 

Praise God for He is gracious and merciful. He is gracious and merciful because even if we are the worst of worst, He still chose to save us from our sins. He is gracious because without His grace, we could've been still under the dominion of sin and death. He is gracious because even if we don’t deserve His salvation, He still chose to die for us. He is merciful because He feels for us. He knows that we will have a hard time and we will suffer in hell, so He came to the world to die for our sins. Indeed God is so gracious and merciful for He empathizes for us and gives up His life for us. His love endures forever

Praise God for He is loving. He is loving because the reason why He died for us all is His love for us. He genuinely and irrevocably loves us without condition. We are very special to Him and He doesn’t want to see us suffer in hell because of our sins. He loved us so much that He gave His one and only Son Jesus Christ to die for us. His love is deeper than the ocean and is wider than the sky. Indeed God is loving for He loved us so deeply to the point of dying on the cross for us all. His love endures forever.

Praise God for He is faithful. He is faithful because He never changes. He is not a God who changes so much but He is a God who is always constant. He is faithful in our lives because even if we are sinful and keep on turning our back on Him, He continues to reach out for us and to minister us. He is faithful because He knows what we need and continues to give us all we need even if we are not faithful to Him. God is very faithful because He is the best example of how we should be patient to everyone just as He is patient with us. Indeed God is faithful for He continues to love us; He continues to be good and great in our lives; and He continues to be gracious and merciful to us. His love endures forever.

Let us always remember to praise God always. Let us always put in our minds that He deserves all glory, honor and praises. Let us enter His gates with thanksgiving and His court with praise. May we always remember that our Lord is good and His love endures forever. His faithfulness continues to all generations. Even from Adam’s generation to our present generations, His faithfulness is evident. Praise God for He is our maker, our creator, our friend, our Father, our Lord and our Savior. Forever and ever. Amen.

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My name is Kim. For a very long time I wasn't sure if I was going to put my real name or use a persona but I decided that I was going to use my real name. I decided that I wanted to start telling my story and to stop hiding everything.

For so long I have hidden behind this wall that I had built up for so many years from all of the hurt and pain that I had been thru and not really knowing how to let anyone in. In person I am not very good with words whatsoever. But it seems like I do better when I have a computer in front of me and I am typing it out because I feel like I have a voice.

And now I want to have my voice heard and I want people to understand the person that they think or thought that they knew. Inside for so many years I was a broken and hurt person. I had finally gotten the help after a night where I had finally had enough with everything and tried to take my life. Not many people know that because like I said before I don't like to have people get close to me. Every time I have allowed people to get close to me I have gotten hurt in the end.

Now that I have started getting the help that I had needed for so long I am ready to tell my life story and make it into a book about my life. I feel like the experiences that I have had in my life I feel like I could speak to people. Especially veterans. The one thing that I would have to say is that when I started giving my life back to Christ after all of that happened there was a peace that came over me and I started feeling more at peace with myself. Not worrying about what other people thought or said about me.

That was my worst trait was always worrying about what other people thought about me or said about me. Now I could care less about what people say about me or what they say to me. Because they do not know me or know my character and well as they thought that they did. If they have to talk about me to make themselves feel better about themself then go for it because there are some people that really know who I am and know that I am not the person that they are saying that I am.

There are so many stories that I could tell about my life and give examples of, but I would have to say that I will have to keep them for a different post and a different day.

My favorite passage that I feel like I have always gone to even as a child that I still go to to this day is Psalm 23:1-6: 1: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." 2: "He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters." 3: "He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name's sake." 4: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me." 5: "You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over." 6: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All of the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever."

Even as a child reading that it was one of my favorite passages and it brought me so much peace in a house where there was no peace for me, there was no real joy in my life, where I felt I was alone and wasn't able to talk to anyone about what I was going through. Because I felt like if I was to talk to anyone they would go running to my parents and tell them what I said.

When I left home I did walk away from the Lord and was doing whatever I wanted to do with the freedom of being away from the home, being in the army at 17 years old and learning about things that I never knew I could do. But now almost 20 years later all of that pain and trauma I have dealt with my entire life came crashing down in an instant and I lost everything. I lost who I was, I lost my career, I lost all of the personal belongings. Then I started coming back to the Lord and realizing that the more that I was praying and reading the Bible, the more I was having PEACE in my life. Then I came back to this verse that I love and knew that that I had walked through the worsts things in my life and I was still here and needing to tell my story to other people to let them know that they are not alone.

Life will not always be perfect but the season that you feel like you are in right now it will not last forever. It only lasts for a season and it will get better as time goes on.

May God Bless You and Your Family. Pray to Him and He will answer all of your prayers. It may not be in your time but it will be in his time.

Love you Family, be Kind, Be loving, Live your Life for God, Laugh as much as you can.