THE GLORY OF THE LORD IN CREATION TO CELEBRATE HIS GOODNESS:

LWFM EXHORTATION FOR THE MONTH OF CELEBRATIONS FOR: WEDNESDAY 4/30/2014 IS: PSALM 8:1-5. Friends, our exhortation for today are focused on “THE GLORY OF THE LORD IN CREATION”. I want to use this opportunity to appreciate those of our members, friends and brethren online who keyed to our daily word of exhortations for the Month of April 2014, I believe you have received all you need to celebrate the goodness of God, and have no doubt in my mind that you will use what you have received to be a blessing to our generation and generations to come. I will be concluding the series today with the glory of the Lord in creation. Just as His wisdom was the cause of making everything in order and harmony, His goodness was the cause of the very act of creation. He pronounced it "very good," that is, such as became His goodness to bring forth into being. So: A. Creation proceeds from goodness; God extracted such multitudes of things from the depths of nothing. Because God is good, things have a being. By His goodness, the whole was brought out of the dark womb of nothingness. B. Creation was the first act of goodness without Himself. The persons of the Blessed Trinity are good to each other (ad intra); the creation is the proof of God's goodness ad extra. C. Especially in the case of man, God's goodness is made manifest. He endued him with choice prerogatives above other creatures; he was made a little lower than the angels, and much more loftily crowned with glory and honor than other creatures (Psalm 8:5). D. God provides for man, as His supreme Benefactor. "O Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the earth" (Psalm 8:1, 4). E. When man sinned, God, in His goodness and for man's sake cursed the creation so that it stills groans under that vanity because of man's rebellion (Romans 8:20-22). But it will finally be delivered from bondage. Finally I challenge you to apply what you have learnt this month in your life and others around you by making use of the application of God’s goodness for comfort as follows: 1. Because He is good, we may expect His instruction: "Good is the Lord, therefore will he teach sinners in his way" (Psalm 25:8). His goodness makes Him stoop down to tutor worms. 2. His goodness impels Him to remove the punishment due to our crimes, and bestow benefits not due to our merits: "Thou, Lord, are good and ready to forgive" (Psalm 86:5). He does not act according to the rigor of the Law, but willingly grants His pardon to those they flee to the arms of the Mediator. 3. Because God is good, we may have comfort in addressing Him, for being accepted in His beloved Son (Ephesians 1:6), His eyes are now upon the righteous, and His ears attentive to their cry (Psalm 34:15). 4. His goodness urges us to know Him and have fellowship with Him. "Acquaint thyself with God, and thereby good shall come unto thee" (Job 22:21). 5. His goodness is a comfort to us in all our afflictions. What can we fear from the conduct of Infinite Goodness? Can His hand be heavy upon those that are humble before Him? He withholds nothing good from those that walk uprightly (psalm 84:11). And since God is love, love thinks no evil (1 Corinthians 13:5). 6. God's goodness is a ground of assurance of happiness. If God be so good, that nothing is better, and loves Himself, as He is good, He cannot be lacking in love to those that resemble His nature, and imitate His goodness. 7. Because God is good, he is a stronghold in the day of trouble, whether it be physical or spiritual (Nahum 1:7). We are persuaded that all things work together for good to them that love God (Romans 8:28). And for exhortation as follows: 1. Our moral obligation is to endeavor all the more after the enjoyment of God as good. How earnestly we should desire him! 2. We must seek God, since all things else that are desirable have their goodness in Him. "Who have I in heaven but thee? And there is none upon earth that I can desire beside thee?" (Psalm 73:25). 3. Meditate often on the Good Lord. It would be strange to look constantly upon the earth, and everything in it, and yet overlook that which it is most full of, that is, God's goodness (Psalm 33:5). 4. A right sense of God's goodness would dispose us to an acceptable worship of God. It was God's loving-kindness that made David all the more resolute to "worship towards His holy temple" (Psalm 138:2). 5. As "the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand" (Psalm 95:7), we ought to pray earnestly with strong faith and feeling, being convinced that our heavenly Father will not give us a stone if we ask for a loaf of bread. 6. God's goodness ought to make us all the more thankful, as we consider our station in life, our condition, our bodies, our great salvation in Christ. In every respect, "I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made" (Psalm 139:14). 7. We are meant to be imitators of God, of His holiness but not least of His goodness. "Do good to them that hate you, that you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good" (Matthew 5:44,45). "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father, which is in heaven, is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). Watch out for our MAY 2014 daily words of Exhortations "EMPOWERMENT FOR THE MANIFESTATIONS OF GODS POWER AND GLORY" TOMORROW MAY 1, 2014. Be blessed as you receive EMPOWERMENT FOR THE MONTH OF MANIFESTATIONS OF GODS POWER AND GLORY, THAT WILL ESTABLISH YOU ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. For updates join our conversation on tweeter @lwfmpower and like us on Facebook at Living Water Foundation Ministries (LWFM), you can also contact us at info@lwfm.us or lwfm@cox.net