No good thing

"...but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing." Psalm 34:10b

It's a small partial sentence out of an absolutely beautiful Psalm...and yet the weight of those ten words is staggering. The believer who seeks the Lord lacks no good thing. NO GOOD THING. Say it over in your mind a couple of times. Let the truth of that sink in.

How many things would we call bad, painful, terrible, unfortunate, unfair, discouraging, frustrating, worrisome, ailing...and God says that, for the believer they are all part of what is keeping us from lacking no good thing. Or, in other words, they are GOOD for us.

Those things that we might label as anything BUT good, God is using to:

-produce steadfastness so that we might be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing (James 1:2-4)

-test our faith that it may result in praise, glory, and honor to Christ (I Peter 1:6-7)

-make us imitators of Christ, who also suffered (1 Peter 4:12-19)

-produces endurance, character, and hope which gives us a greater confidence and trust in the love of God (Romans 5:3-5)

-remind us that this life is temporary...eternity is forever and the glory to be revealed will blow our minds away!!! (Romans 8:18)

-comfort us (2 Cor. 1:5)

-shine His power through us and be our strength(2 Cor. 12:9-10)

Those are just a few...but, truth is, the ways are limitless because God knows no bounds!

Rest in His sovereignty and in the sweet joy and peace that comes from knowing that, whatever circumstance you find yourself in right now, as much as you may not see the "good" in it...you can rest in the fact that it is good for you!