Crowned With Goodness

“Jesus asked, “Didn’t I heal ten men? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” Luke 17:17-18.

God will wrap this year up for you with goodness in Jesus Name. How should you respond to God’s goodness? Start by thanking God and thank Him profusely. After you have given thanks, let this newly established appreciation of God’s goodness draw you closer to God. Then you respond even further by increasing our goodness to other people because as children of God we will imitate our Father. And then go on to face the future with confidence because you know that God who has bought you this far will take you even further. Gratitude is so so important with God.

There is a lake in the United States called the Lake Michigan. It is a very huge lake. So huge that if you look at it from the shore you will think it is an ocean. This lake has storms just like an ocean would. And there was a time, long time ago [real life story] a ship carrying about four hundred people capsized in the lake. Less than a hundred people survived, in other words, over three hundred people died. Now, a sixteen-year-old boy was standing at the shore when the ship capsized just about a mile to the shore. And even though the same storm that sunk that ship was still raging, the boy jumped into the lake and began his journey to rescue. He swam one mile to and one mile back to save the first person, the second, the third, and on and on like that. And by the time he got to the seventeenth person, he could not feel or use his legs. He could not even get up and because medical science was limited at the time, he lost the use of his legs for life so he was on a wheelchair. And on his eighteenth birthday, that is two years after the incident, he was asked about the one thing that struck for him most about the events of that day. You would think he would talk about the heroic act and all that, but he said that of the seventeen people he saved not one person came back to say thank you. He said, if one person had come back, at least it would be that he lost his legs for something. That young man was crippled for life and not one person came back to say thank you. Does that sound familiar? Didn’t that happen to Jesus? Sadly, we treat God like that boy sometimes. Just to go back and say thank you is a big deal to some people. They would rather move on to the next breakthrough, or the next anointing. Yet God is saying to you and I today, just to come back and say thank you. Is that too much to ask?

Prayer: Father, I give You thanks because You are good and Your mercies endure for ever. Thank You Lord for crowning my year and my future with goodness, in Jesus Name.