A few Good Songs to start a New Week on...
Promises-Matt Boswell & Matt Papa
'Think good thoughts' and 'think positive thoughts'
are becoming popular phrases in this age!
Please tell me what good can a good thought do
without God?
(without yielding thought to prayer)
James 1:16-18
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Every good and perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,
with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth,
that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
Tell me, what good can good thought do
When we are down and out
If Good Thought is not first thought through
To Who ‘Good’ is about
Good thought is good but cannot turn
The tables of despair
To hope if we rebel and spurn
Good thought turned into prayer
For if the Good Thinker refutes
Goodness by Goodness blessed
Mortal’s inferior substitutes
Are pitiful at best
Dare we with atheistic bent
Omit the Name whereby
Goodness, mercy and love prevent
What law would justify
Ah, what is thought (both good and ill)
But our utter need
To submit to the Perfect Will
Of God to intercede
Good or positive thoughts alone
Are like trying to fly
While we, manacled to a stone
Are leaping for the sky
Tell me, what good is Good Thought’s sum
Without the power of
The One all Goodness proceeds from
God’s Never-failing Love
Therefore, the goodness Mind suggests
Flows not from mortal aught
But from God's grace that manifests
His love in noble thought
Tell me, what good are good thoughts when
By True Goodness bereft
Bids a façade without God, then
Is any goodness left?
© Janet Martin
Lots more 'goodness' where these verses came from:
God's Word
You are good, and do good;
teach me Your statutes.
Psalm 119:68
You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,
and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth,
and gave them water for their thirst.
Nehemiah 9:20
Hear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good;
turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
Psalm 69:16
The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble;
and He knows those who trust in Him.
Nahum 1:7
No one is good but One,
that is, God.
Mark 10:18
He loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
Psalm 33:5
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed is the man who trusts in Him!
Psalm 34:8
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
For the Lord is good;
His mercy is everlasting.
Psalm 100:4-5
Oh, how great is Your goodness,
which You have laid up for those who fear You,
which You have prepared for those who trust in You
in the presence of the sons of men!
You shall hide them in the secret place
of Your presence from the plots of man;
You shall keep them secretly in a pavilion
from the strife of tongues.
Psalm 31:19-20
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