I love reading the Psalms. Psal
ms is probably my favorite Old Testament book to read just for fun. It’s like plunging both hands into a large pile of diamonds and precious stones and drinking in the richness and beauty of each one as they dribble through your hands. They offer instruction in how to enjoy and trust Christ in the midst of the most harrowing tragedies; they offer deep truths fit to create a profound, all encompassing, bursting love and worship of God. Perhaps one of my most quoted verse lately is a verse found in this goldmine book. I’d like to talk about it and it’s implications. The verse is the small, yet powerful, Psalm 119:68
“You are good and do good;
teach me your statutes.”
You are good
I love this part! The truth that God (that is who the You refers to) is good. I think it’s very significant that this statement goes before “and do good“. I think the reason why this comes first is to show that God is good… REGARDLESS of how we perceive His actions. That is, God is good
not because He measures up to what “good” is, but God is good because “good” is by definition whatever God is. What an amazing assurance! That there is not some… standard of goodness God must measure up to or uphold to be considered good, but God is that standard. Who He is and what He does is by it’s very nature and definition the highest good imaginable. That is assuring because this allows us to know that whatever may happen to us, it is ultimately good; good by nature and good for us (Romans 8:28). Because God works ALL things after the counsel of His Will (Ephesians 1:11) and God is by nature good, all things we encounter as believers are for good. We can rest our hope that no matter how seemingly bad a certain situation is, God is good and He does good, and He allowed this seemingly bad situation to occur. And knowing that and trusting that produces a worshipful spirit and reverent awe that leads to one seeking to be obedient and to serve such a great and powerful God and wanting to know His statutes.
May His power and sovereignty produce in us the peace that goes beyond all understanding.
Soli Deo Gloria


Tweets from the Decisional Regenerationalist himself! And I think I just made a new word!
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