Happy Thanksgiving! - Kindness & Goodness

Thanksgiving is always a special time of year for Audrey. As leader of the Ladies Bible Study* and song leader,** Audrey reflects on the blessings of God and updates her journal.

Journal Entry November 25
"After our fellowship Thanksgiving meal at church, I followed Kat back to her country home. She likes to be called Kat but we often call her by her full name of Katharine Villaseñor just to make her smile. Kat is definitely an outdoors girl. I'm always feel so small next to her and she has some sort of military background.

Kat doesn't talk much about her background and people could easily be frightened around her, but we know her. Behind her rather blunt conversation is an incredibly kind woman. I understand she's met a man now*** and she actually tends to get a little giddy when the subject comes up.

Kat had asked me out to her place to give me some of her garden vegetables. They were fresh and looked great, so I thanked her profusely. In typical Kat style, she shrugged it off and said, "God is good." It is a phrase I hear used a lot at our church and the habit is to reply, "All the time." "God is good," one will say, and another will reply, "All the time."

On my drive back I was thinking about the distinction in the Galatians 5 passage on the fruit of the Spirit between 'kindness' and 'goodness'. Kindness is a disposition to please others. Because a kind heart is seeking the best for others it is marked by a mild temper, a calm spirit, an unruffled disposition, a disposition to treat all with cultured civility and politeness, and a desire to help at any opportunity. This is one of the regular effects of the Spirit's operations on the heart.

When we say, "God is good." we're typically talking about His kindness towards us. We mean, "God has been good to me." He has blessed me. But when the Bible talks about God's goodness, properly it is speaking of His righteousness. God is good. We see in the Scripture, "This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all."

John makes the same statement twice, once in a postive way, once in a negative. Postively, God is light. He is pure. He is knowledge and righteousness. Then negatively, in Him there is no darkness at all. Not only is God uncorrupted light, He is incorruptible. There is no darkness within Him, nothing to which evil could ever appeal in any way.

For God to save us and not only give us hearts of lovingkindness, but to also change us into creatures who love His law and His righteousness, is truly a work only He can do.

For God's gift of kindness and goodness, I give thanks today."

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." Galatians 5:22-23

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It is Paprihaven's Seven Days of Thanksgiving! Join us in thanking God for His many blessings! "Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens." Ephesians 1:3

1 John 1:5

Previous Thanksgiving at Paprihaven!
2015:
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2016:
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2017:
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2018:
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2019:
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2020:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/50649209702/

* As seen here!
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** As seen here!
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*** Indeed, she's met Glenn!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/39093140054/

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