Receiving God’s goodness and faithfulness

Receiving God’s goodness and faithfulness begins my admitting our need of God’s help and grace in our lives. Trusting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour is a way to express this. We admit our need to be forgiven and that we can’t fully show others God’s love on our own. What we receive from God we can then share with others.

Reflecting God’s goodness and faithfulness to others is something that Jesus Christ did this perfectly. We can spend a life time learning how to grow in living like this. It is as we grow in our understanding of God’s goodness and faithfulness that we can more fully reflect this to others. Jesus told a parable about three servants who were given different responsibilities by their master. Two invested what they were given and saw it grow. The third buried his resources. He considered the master to be unfair and mean. As a result he was described as “wicked and lazy”. The other two were “good and faithful” servants. Their faithfulness in little things meant that they were entrusted with more. (See Matthew 25:14-30 for the full story)

To what degree are you living as if you believe that God is good and faithful? How are you opening yourself up to God? How are you reflecting this to others?