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Repentance in the Strong's Concordance means repentance to salvation, AND repentance that keeps us in fellowship with our Good God. God provided repentance for me to be able to keep short accounts with Him of my sin and be in fellowship with Him...allowing me to boast of His goodness and wondrous works. The above verse says that some people actually despise the riches of these provisions...which would definitely cause others to see that our God was NOT good.

Forbearance in the Strong's Concordance means tolerance, patience, self-restraint. I sat and thought back many years and became exceedingly glad for the forbearance of my God...for the times when He was tolerant, patient, and exercised self-restraint on my behalf. That alone is enough for me to boast that God is good!

Psa 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

In the verses before verse 13, David asks God to hear and answer him when he cried (vs.7). In verse 8, he asks God not to hide His face neither forsake him. In verse 11, he asks God to teach him His ways. Why? Because he wanted to see the goodness of the LORD (Jehovah) in the land of the living. Do we want to do likewise bad enough to ask God to be ever near to us...and live so that He can be? Is seeing and proclaiming the goodness of God that important to us? And why should it be so important? So that we can tell, boast, live, think in such a way that the world around us can see and hear:

Psa 145:8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
Psa 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Psa 145:10 All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.
Psa 145:11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;
Psa 145:12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
Psa 145:13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
Psa 145:14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

Are our hearts bowed down in adoration for all His mighty acts and glorious majesty of His kingdom? Are we humbled over the assurance of our home in Heaven with God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit forever?

Is God enough to sustain us and provide us with His strength so that we can live proclaiming with everything that we do, think, and say, that God is good?---regardless of the condition He has chosen for us to live in? Is Romans 8:28 still true today? Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

God is good!!!...God is working ALL things together for our good...whether we feel like He is or not. So let us, God's redeemed children, purpose to remember and meditate on the landmarks in our lives; purpose to tell and boast of His wondrous works; live desiring life with thanksgiving for each new day...with the knowledge that God has given us the same Holy Spirit that He gave to Jesus, His son, and the same strength ..so that our lives can always proclaim GOD IS GOOD--ALWAYS!!!

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