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Following God To The Good Life
Pastor Chris
What is "the good life?"
Maybe your idea of the "good life" has looked like:
- A marriage overflowing with love and laughter
- Kids who are happy, healthy, and love Jesus
- A successful, meaningful career
- Days without sadness or anxiety
- A lifetime of answered prayers
If you believe the "good life" is possible, and you assume God wants you to have it too, when life is filled with so much NOT good, it's easy to draw one conclusion: Maybe God isn't good.
Even the most prominent priest in Israel, Asaph, knew what it was like to question the goodness of God. In Psalm 73:2 he says, "But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped." So, what do we do when our experiences don't match what we thought a good God and a good life were "supposed" to look like? We realize we haven't been going to God to get God.
Most of us begin the Christian life assuming we can use God to get our version of the good life, but then He will bring us into darkness, into depression, into dissatisfaction, into suffering, to show us that He is everything we want. Christian, go to God to get GOD HIMSELF.
So, what is the "good life?"
The good life is being near the good God.
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