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God is good--Always! I say this phrase almost every time that I talk to people or write a note to someone...even an e-mail. I like to remind others to think of the Lord's goodness...and also remind myself. Last week while praying about preparing a lesson for my Bible study group, God laid this often touted phrase on my heart. I prayed and began a tremendous adventure. For the next few days I will share that Bible study with you.
God is good! So often we say it, but do we really mean it?

Psa 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

The word taste means to perceive. So God is telling us to taste/perceive (Webster's Dictionary--to take in mentally; to become aware through the senses) that the LORD, Jehovah, is good.
After writing this down, I sat for a long time and wondered how many times I had failed to taste/perceive that God is good? I sat and wondered how many times in my life that others could not read my epistle/life and know that God is good? Oh, they probably heard it from my mouth,but could others always see it was true by my spirit?

--What does it mean to be good? I believe it means the living up to the best and highest that one knows.
--Do we believe God to be a good God--Always? Even in trials of heartaches, illness, or grief over the lost of a loved one?
--Do we in all things act like, live like, and believe with all of our heart, soul, and mind that God is good-always?

Let's go to the book of Psalms--chapter 34:1-9
Psa 34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Psa 34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Psa 34:3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Psa 34:4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Psa 34:5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
Psa 34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psa 34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
Psa 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Psa 34:9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

In verse 3 we find the word "magnify."
Curious as to the entire meaning of this word I looked in the Strong's Concordance and found that it means promote; praise; make powerful; do great things. I sat and pondered those meanings for several minutes.
I knew that magnify meant praise but I had to think about the rest of the meanings. I thought about my promoting and making powerful the name of God....and about my doing great things. At first, it sounded a tad boastful to put on myself to do great things for God. It then dawned on me that is the prayer of Jabez--when he asked God to enlarge his coasts. It also dawned on me that if the desire of my heart is truly to be used of God, then I should be praying for God to show Himself as powerful and great in the things He entrusts and enables me to do...and His things "All Things" will be great things.

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