A Life Infused With God’s Goodness
by Jeremy Lim, Elder
I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing. (Psalm 16:2)
I love cooking with my wok. I’ve modified my outdoor burner so I can actually hear the flames as if they were blasting out of a mini jet engine. The wok itself has been seasoned over many years and imparts its own flavor to each dish I cook. The beauty of cooking with a well-seasoned wok over super high heat is that you can cook fast and evenly as long as you’re willing to stand there and stir the ingredients together so they don’t burn. This constant stirring guarantees that the seasonings and sauces will be infused into every bite of the dish. I’m getting hungry…
As in a perfectly cooked and seasoned stir-fry where every bite is as good as the next, God wants His goodness to invade every nook and cranny of our lives. He wants His goodness to be so well mixed into our lives that it binds together everything that makes us who we are––our victories and our failures––into something that is beautiful!
Telling God, “You are my Lord,” is so much more than acknowledging Him as the most important thing in our lives. God doesn’t want to be first on our list of priorities, only to be forgotten once we’ve done our business with Him so we can move on down our list. He wants to be in everything on that list. He wants to infuse His goodness into every aspect of our lives so that when we call Him Lord, we are reminded that apart from Him we have no good thing.
As we near the end of our 40-day fast, how has this experience reminded you of God’s desire to be Lord in every area of your life? Many of us may be fasting from a food or a habit that we wouldn’t normally associate with our relationship to God. Yet voluntarily choosing to let God be a part of this one aspect of your life is a powerful step toward letting Him into other areas you may have never considered before. Keep letting Him be a part of everything you say, do, and think throughout the day, every day. The result will be a life that is literally inseparable from the goodness of God.
Prayer: Lord, please show me how I can continue to open up more of myself to You. Thank You for loving me so much and for wanting to bring Your goodness to every area of my life that I’m willing to give to You. Amen
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