the mountain tops and valleys of life.

I was thinking earlier today about the goodness of God. It amazes me just how good God is...it's an incredible thing, and I am so grateful for it. When everything in our lives seem like they are falling apart, God is still good, sovereign, holy, strong, and bigger than whatever we may be facing. I find myself amazed.

Life has so many ups and downs. Life is full of so much good, yet so much bad. That's life. I thought about how crucial it is to praise God in our good times as well as the bad. If we cannot praise God in the best times of our lives, how in the world can we praise God in the worst times? Being grateful is extremely important, and I hope that my gratitude towards God has been evident in my life no matter how good or bad things may seem to me.

When we find ourselves on the mountain top, we must give God all the Glory so that we can praise Him in the valley. Maybe everything in our life is wonderful, we need to make sure all the glory be to the One who blessed us in the first place. Maybe everything in our life is not going the way we had planned, we need to praise Him in the midst of our circumstances. Maybe things in our lives have taken a turn for the worst, we must praise Him in advance and trust that God works all things together for our good.

My prayer is that we can live lives that praise the One who has saved us. May we never be too caught up in our mountain top that we forget the God who put us there to begin with. And may we always remember to give God all the Glory ahead of time for the wonderful things He has done and will do in our lives even if we are currently in the valley.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28