CERTIFIED TO BE GOOD!

Certified To Be Good!

Testimony is very key. A witness of one or two more people can affirm a thing and do you good. That's what we also do call attestation. 

When you need and where you'll need it, may there arise for you certain people who can freely attest to who you are.

May someone say, "and He is very good!" That sound can settle it all.

Are you there feeling useless? Have people called you, "no good" and have you come to see yourself in that same light?

What is the Lord God saying concerning you this morning?

Let's hear Him speak to us and surely I know it'll be an answer of peace.

Genesis1:31, KJV

"And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good..."

It says what? "And God saw everything that he had made..."

Now, what does "everything that he had made" attract? 

That would be, "very good!"

God saw everything that He had made and He came to one conclusion after inspecting it all. 

They are good!

Interest you to know that you're one of the things God said was "very good!"

When He looked at you at creation, the comment this good teacher passed was, "very good." When He beholds you even now, what He sees and then says about you hasn't changed. It is still, "very good!"

So, what do you think has fallen, gone wrong, being damaged or refashioned in you that's standing in the way of, God's "very good?"

Why do you feel unrelentlessly inferior? Why do you keep having this feeling of "incompleteness", "lack" and "missing parts."

Why are you not whole? Why do you feel robbed, stolen from and cheated by the Almighty? Why do you think God is unfair or unjust to you?

But hear God's Word, it says, "and it was very good!"

Not only a thing of the past. I'm hearing God's voice now. He hasn't changed His thoughts concerning you. The remark He once wrote for you is still what He's writing now. God is still saying, you're "very good."

Don't forget that our thoughts are not God's thoughts and our ways are not God's ways. If you were called to assess yourself now, you'll probably fail yourself and call or score yourself, "not good!"

However, God who's plentiful in mercy, loving and forgiving wants you to see differently. God wants you to see yourself like He sees you. He doesn't want you to see your deficiencies. He doesn't want you to see those habits you're struggling to be free from. They are real but something is more real. It's that God's mouth says, "you're good". He looks at you and He has nothing else to say than, "and you're very good!"

What a good teacher we have in God! A teacher that scores his students "very good!" The Bible speaking in Isaiah 53:1 says, "who has believed our report...?"

The only thing next for you to do now is to believe this score and comment God has written on your report card. 

It reads, "and you're very good."

Has your aunt, parents, spouse, colleague, boss told you contrarily? So much more that you're beginning to see yourself as "no good" or "not good?" Will you believe God's report over theirs? God is their Creator and yours as well. The One who created all of you and has upper hand over all of them is saying now, "but you're very good."

Don't believe another thing. Don't believe less than God's Word!

What He has said over you and concerning you after assessment, inspection and observation of this product of His hands (which you are) is that, "and you're very good!"

Take this and run with it. God is greater and better than anyone who has said anything else over you. Discard what they've said and take that of the lover of your soul who's saying, "I can only recommend that you're good." Listen, from the office of the Quality Control

You're very good!

Believe in what God says. Believe in what we have written in the Bible concerning you. God left such there for such a time as this when doubts may attack you about your value and importance. 

That voice is only echoing one thing. After traversing the whole earth, checking North and South, it could only come back to say, "and you're very good".

Do you think God will put out there a deficient being. Coupled with the fact that you're born again, you can only be "very good" in God's sight!

Why? How?

Your sins are forgiven! They've been blotted out. You're new again like that of creation when God beheld all creation and endorsed it with, "and it is very good."

Psalms 32:2, KJV

"Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile."

You're blessed because you've found forgiveness.

Therefore, believe in God's original copy and statement that says, "I look and He/She is good." You are good! You are not deficient! You are not distasteful! You are not awkward!

They said concerning David in I Samuel  16:18, "behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him."

If you'll read other versions, you'll see the usage of the word, "good" in place of "cunning." It's like saying now, "that's good in playing..."

When they went to find who could stand in Saul's presence, they found no other person except for the "good, skillful, cunning" David!

They went to and fro and at day's end, they found the "good one!" One who is up to! One who can deliver! One who can always do it and get it done! 

When this fellow looked upon David, he could only describe him as "good, skillful or cunning!"

The same sword is what God is holding over you. 

You are good! You are very good!

You are no less! You are not different!

© Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.