“God hath all life, goodness, blessedness, in and of himself…He is the alone fountain of all being, of whom, through whom, and to whom are all things…He is most holy in all his counsels, in all His works, and in all His commands.” Those words blow my mind! I’ve read them over and over throughout the years, but they have never stopped commanding my attention. These high words describing God come from the Westminster Confession of Faith. Though they were penned 500 years ago, the God they speak of has not changed and so neither has their truth or gravity.
Belief in the perfect perfection of God is awe-inspiring. God has never made a mistake or commanded something out of a bad motive. He has never fallen asleep at the wheel nor has He ever whined or rolled His eyes for having to deal with us.
We could not be further from perfect perfection. No one will ever say of me that all my advice is sound and all of my actions are flawless. I am filled with feelings of arrogance and weakness. I disappoint myself and the people around me.
All of our dark self-hating and neighbor-envying only serves to remind us that in God and only in Him, lies all life, goodness and blessedness, light and wisdom, hope and truth. And we are actually driven to the goodness and perfection of God by our sin. Do we not find that the knowledge of our sinful selves actually makes the radiance of His perfection shine brighter? The dark backdrop of our impurities causes the diamond of His goodness to be seen for how it really is - the fountain of all goodness.
Dear reader, let your sin, shame and brokenness be catalyst to treasure the perfection and goodness of God. Let the contrast between Him and you bring you to the foot of His cross in total awe that He is yours.
Father, in You is found the perfection of happiness and the fountain of life. In Your goodness, cause even the blackness of my sin to magnify the flawlessness of your beauty.
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