Tell Me, What Good Can a Good Thought Do (without God)?

A few Good Songs to start a New Week on...

Promises-Matt Boswell & Matt Papa

  

O, Worship the Risen Christ-Matt Boswell & Matt Papa

Goodness of God Rhett Walker

 

'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