“GIVING ATTENTION TO GOD’S GOODNESS”

“I want to urge you, dear friends, to observe the goodness of God carefully for your soul’s good.” – Charles Spurgeon

“A busy, practical, hurried, and distracted people, we develop habits of inattention and miss those tiny epiphanies in our day.” – Tish Warren

“As our lives center on God, gratitude grows. When self-focus sprouts and spreads, gratefulness withers.” – Dustin Crowe

1. GOD IS GOOD … THANK HIM!

“Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good.”

• Psalm 100:4-5
• Psalm 106:1
• Psalm 107:1
• Psalm 118:1, 29
• Psalm 136:1

2. GOD IS GOOD … PAY ATTENTION!

• Always present
• Always working
• Always good
• - OPEN YOUR EYES!
• - LOOK AROUND!
• Psalm 23:6
• Psalm 27:13
• Psalm 31:19
• Psalm 65:11--> PARAPHRASE You crown the year with your goodness, and your wagon tracks are dripping with evidence of that goodness.

3. GOD IS GOOD … TASTE AND SEE!

Psalm 34:8

• Discover by personal experience

Romans 2:4

• God’s goodness leads toward repentance

1 Peter 2:2-3

• Salvation is the first real taste of God’s goodness

“The bedrock of our rejoicing isn't the goodness of our day, but the goodness of our God."

-Melissa Kruger