Good

 Jesus is good. 

That's it really. 😊  

He is just the goodest bestest person you will ever know.

Yesterday I was in contact with a friend I haven't heard from for ages.  We had an exchange of watsapp messages and afterwards I felt......... good.  My friend is a good person.  The sort who leaves you feeling better than when you started.  And it made me think about goodness and what it is - and its really really hard to put into words.

I have known countless times in worship when I have just stood with my hands raised saying over and over again  'You are SO good'   because I have been overwhelmed by the sense of the presence of God being everything that is wholesome and true and kind and wonderful.  Regularly when praying with people I get the sense of the goodness of God coming to cover and fill .  Its not quite the same as His favour, I don't think.  Favour somehow implies His actions towards us - that He is doing kind and wonderful things.   Goodness is about who He is.  It shines out of Him  and He can't do anything about it.   


 Jesus calls Himself the good shepherd.  But I don't think that is because He does a great job of looking after sheep.  I think goodness is an intrinsic quality and it can equally apply to everything Jesus calls Himself.  He is a good door, a good saviour ,a good vine and a good son.  He is morally full of virtue.  There is no shadow of turning or darkness or deception in Him.  He is honest and trustworthy.   We are safe in His presence.  But more than all of that He makes US both feel and be good.   Just as Moses had a shining face when he came down the mountain, we too are changed by being in the presence of the goodness of God.  Its why children couldn't keep away from Jesus - they can sense goodness and are attracted to it like a magnet.   I can imagine that the smile and the laugh and the banter and physical touch of Jesus were so healing and life-giving in themselves.  It is what drew so many to follow Him everywhere He went

Time for a song.  Has to be this one I think 😄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0FBb6hnwTo&t=1s

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