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Goodness in biblical sense connotes love, mercy, benevolence and grace. Our God has these attributes.
This passage 1king 8: 55-66
55:And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
56:“Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.
57:The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us,
58:that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.
59:Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
60:that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other.
61:Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.”
62:Then the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
63:Solomon offered as peace offerings to the Lord 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
64:The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too small to receive the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.
65:So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days.
66:On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.
is a celebration of Gods goodness in the life of David in particular and Israel as a whole. David had conceived the vision of building a temple for God.
He gathered the materials for the temple but Solomon his son had the privilege of building and dedicating the temple for Gods glory.
Prominent in this dedication ceremony is the fellowship offerings symbolizing fellowship with God and with each other.
It is by Gods goodness that we are drawn into fellowship with him even in our unworthiness.
This grace should not be taken for granted; we should reciprocate this goodness by living a life worthy of our calling as children of God.
We should also reflect this goodness by the way we treat other people, showing them both hospitality and kindness.
PRAYER WITH ME: Thank you my dear God, for your goodness in bringing me into fellowship with you. May I live to celebrate your goodness all the days of my life in Jesus name Amen.
Thanks for the post, godswill.
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