All the time!

Today I got thinking about the Greek debt crisis and all the queues in front of ATMs in Greece. I was wondering why people wanted to withdraw all their cash, as if having the physical money would make them wealthier, or less likely to lose their wealth. I also wondered why the government didn’t want them to withdraw their cash. I mean, the Greeks weren’t eating the money; they were spending it and keeping it in circulation...

At this point I got to an ATM, here in Nigeria.  I was half expecting to meet a queue, but the one I saw was a bit longer than I had hoped.

I joined the queue, progressing slowly towards the machine. When I was about three turns away, the machine abruptly stopped working. The screen went white, with no instructions or information displayed.

We [queue people] weren’t sure whether it was going to start working again or shut down completely, but we watched and waited. After a while, one bold fellow among us walked up and smacked the machine a few times. Well, what do you know, it started working again.

There were a lot of comments then about ATMs and Nigeria and stuff, but my heart was drawn to a remarkable lesson:

These machines, though man-made, are expected to work all the time, but they’re not infallible. Sometimes they breakdown, and then they get fixed.

God is good. Goodness isn’t a state He exists in, it’s His entire existence. You can never catch God napping from His goodness; you can’t even find Him less good at any point in time than He has always been.

God’s goodness is so reliable, you can bet your life on it. And you should.

If you come to God seeking only His goodness, you may not get it though, because His goodness cannot be separated from Himself; but if you come to God desiring all of Him, He guarantees that you will get all you desire, and lots more.

It’s been said since the beginning of time, and it will said long after time has ended: God is good!