God’s Goodness

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

February 26, 2026

God’s Goodness

Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us.

Genesis 1: 26a 

Because Christ is my life, God, my Father, declares that I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. God further attests that His righteousness, since it was given to me as a gift, is not based on my behavior. I am not His righteousness, or new creation, because of what I did, or I am doing, or what I have refrained from doing. Rather it is because of what He has done in uniting me to Christ in death, burial, resurrection, and enthronement.

I first saw the above affirmation more than thirty-five years ago. I return to it often because I believe it so succinctly affirms the eternal goodness of God. God’s grace extended to me is not based on who I think I am. God’s grace is not extended to me because of my behavior in doing the right things or abstaining from forbidden fruit. God’s grace is extended to me because of the eternal Goodness of God.

This is not to say I have no responsibility toward God. The imperative of scripture is quite clear: “But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48) This is to say, the grounding of our faith to rest in God’s grace for today is in our conviction, first, that God created us in His image – God took the initiative to do this. Secondly, God took the initiative to provide for our redemption by uniting us to Christ in death, burial, resurrection, and enthronement.

My Takeaway: Again and again, I go to God’s altar to receive Holy Communion. I go, not because I have earned the right to go. I go, because God’s Goodness beckons me, “Come, receive food for your journey.” 

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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