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THE DAILY MOTIVATOR
Monday, September 11, 2006

Goodness lives
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Life’s most difficult moments teach us that we’re stronger than we know. It always pays to remember that.

When the worst happens, is when we have the opportunity to be our best. When the challenges seem unbearable and hope is a distant memory, a new and stronger hope is already taking root.

Though events can terribly injure us and pull us a long way down, nothing can rob us of the ability and desire to connect with life’s goodness. And so that goodness always, in its own way, prevails, despite the unimaginable odds against it.

For that goodness lives in our hearts, where we can always keep it alive. And because we know how it feels so completely right, that is what we do.

In the everyday moments, goodness lives. In the most joyful times and during the darkest days, it becomes more deeply entrenched and more personally meaningful.

We pause to remember all that has gone before, and look ahead to the many possibilities that are now springing to life. Through it all, underneath it all, we carry an abiding goodness that we cannot be without.

Ralph Marston

Quick Thought:

For You (O LORD) are my rock and my fortress; therefore, for Your name’s sake, lead me and guide me. Pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, for You are my strength. Into Your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.” Psalm 31:3-5 (NKJ)

Luke 15:1-7

“Now all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming near Him (near Jesus) to listen to Him. And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”

“And He (Jesus) told them this parable, saying, “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture, and go after the one which is lost, until he finds it?”

“And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’”

“I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.” Luke 15:1-7 (NAS)

John 12:42-50

“Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.”

“And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in Me does not believe in Me, but in Him who sent Me. And he who beholds Me beholds the One who sent Me. I have come as light into the world, that everyone who believes in Me may not remain in darkness.”

“And if anyone hears My sayings, and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects Me, and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.”

“For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me commandment, what to say, and what to speak. And I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.” John 12:42-50 (NAS)

Today’s Suggested Bible Reading

Read the Bible in a Year:

New Testament — 1 Corinthians 14:1 - 14:25.
Old Testament — Psalms 140-144.