Goodness

My brother recently had a little girl; she’s a beauty. She is perfect. She is a blessing from the Lord. She's 4 months now and has been living on breast milk. Breast milk (I shall refer to it as B milk from now on) for Bontle is EVERYTHING! It’s all she’s had during her first few months in this world and it is (more importantly) all she needs. All she needs to survive is produced by her mother… a mother who gladly gives it to her. Bontle joyfully accepts this milk. This girl was born with the ability to accept her mother’s milk. Perfect Bontle is a hefty baby; she is growing, all on that B milk and I thank the Lord for B milk. More than that, I thank Him for His amazing design of the entire “woman gets pregnant, has baby then automatically creates the only food source baby needs to thrive” process. That process is a demonstration of the Lord’s wisdom and love. In His infinite wisdom, He thought up and created automatic processes to support life, all without counsel. Gee wiz! And this after the huge marvel that is pregnancy.  It is BEAUTIFUL. It is jaw dropping, just like everything else the Lord does. It is a testimony of the caliber of the only true and living God.

Bontle, at 4 months, has known the goodness of the Lord in more ways than we can count. She may not know that she knows it yet, but she does. The goodness of the Lord is there whether or not she (or we) can perceive it. See, it’s His character. He is good. Whether or not you feel like He is all the time doesn’t change that truth. His goodness is in lungs inhaling and exhaling… your lungs… the lungs of those you love… the lungs of those that pay your salary… lungs designed by a holy God to need oxygen that He provides. His goodness is in arriving alive at any destination. His goodness is in having food. His goodness is in today; your having a today to speak of is His goodness. His goodness is in a baby’s need for B milk and a mother’s ability to provide it. The things that we think are ordinary and basic also testify of the Lord’s goodness. They declare it. Please don’t let yourself forget that. It makes our ability to obey the command to “rejoice in the Lord always” (Phil 4:4) much easier.

May your desire for biblical milk compare to that of an infant’s desire for B milk. And may your knowledge of the Lord’s goodness encourage you in Him and increase your desire for Him today and forevermore.

Seth.