I have had some good moments. For sure, not many, but there have been a few
moments where I did good.
What is doing good in the Lord’s eyes?
Being faithful. That’s it. It’s impossible to please God without faith in God.
It’s not your bank account, the work of your hand, it’s not who you know or what you know that pleases God.
Whatever you or I have done it pales in comparison to what our majestic God has done.
The only way to please God or to be justified, good person or bad person, is to have faith in the once unknown God. This unknown God’s character has been made known to us by the life of Jesus Christ. God, once thought to have been a man of men with a white beard and an austere and hard deity has now been revealed to be neither male or female. God is the Spirit and God is power. Now, in these days every believer knows God is love, is easily intreated and full of tenderness and pity for humans like me. God is so good and so faithful.
Those times I’ve trusted in God and lived by faith, God has been pleased.
Yet, most of my life I’ve been, well, faithless. I was faithless but was God? No indeed.
While I was living faithlessly my God was remaining faithful to me. Watching over me. Guiding me. Ordering my steps. Giving me enough leash but not too much leash.
As I leash train my little pup Renzo, I let him have his own way for a bit but when he gets too helter skelter or too far out in front I gently pull him back and help him walk beside me. I don’t let him walk out in front of me too long before gently taking slack out of his leash. I don’t want him hurting himself or hurting anyone else. He’s my boy. Though he’d like to run wild, I love him enough to let him get it out of his system but never allow him to go too far. Renzo and I do best when we walk side by side with me taking a very slight lead.
Today I just want to be God’s Renzo. I have no other ambition today but to be close to my God with God’s word as my leash and God’s unseen hand guiding me.
God is faithful even when I am not.
Please, today God, feed this dog that I am some crumbs from your table. I’m unworthy for much else.
A testimony Friday, October 29, 2021