Accept The Good

The other night I watched the film "Things We Lost In the Fire."
I wasn't sure how it would be, but it was quite beautiful and incredible. The theme of redemption the world is so hungry for seem to be showing more and more through media. One line in the movie that was actually a theme, a saying that the husband who heroically died said, was

Accept the good.

It seems simple enough. We all want good, why wouldn't we accept it?
Often I think we have a wrong view of God, and this wrong view bleeds into every area of our lives.
We are told so much that being a Christian is hard, that we need to expect trials, make sure we are ready for war, basically always have our guard up.

So when good happens, when peace overcomes war, when love conquers fear, we are so cynical and skeptical, we think it must be the enemy tricking us, this can't happen to Christians, we are supposed to suffer for Christ,

This is too good to be true...

The crazy thing is, when something seems to good to be true, it's usually means it is truth. THE Truth.

A God that knows us throughly and loves us completely, Grace that levels anything good or bad we can do and puts us all in the same boat. Forgiveness, redemption, abundance, our dreams coming true- all these things seem too good to be true...

Yet, this is the gospel. Yet all these things are what make up the kingdom of heaven- this is the heart of God- EVERY good and perfect gift is from Him.

We are so afraid we don't deserve it... we don't... and that's the point.

Accept the Good.