Jn.6:12 – And when they had eaten their fill, He *said to His disciples, “Gather up the leftover pieces so that nothing will be lost.”
This is one of those things about the Lord that will take eternity to explore, infinite goodness. When I first came to the Lord over fifty years ago I had no idea that I had just dipped my toe into the ocean of God’s infinite goodness. How many times would He protect me in the years to come? How many prayers would He answer or how many times would He fill my mouth with the necessary words for the moment? How many times would I receive guidance or supernatural provision at just the right moment? His goodness is past finding out and His mercy is new again and again and again. His faithfulness is constant and His love reaches into every crevice of my life. Here is how Maclaren describes God’s infinite goodness.
“Oh, dear friends! what you and I have ever had and felt of Christ’s power, sweetness, preciousness, and love is as nothing compared with the infinite depths of all those which lie in Him. The sea fills the little creeks along its shore, but it rolls in unfathomed depths, boundless to the horizon away out there in the mid-Atlantic. And all the present experience of all Christian people, of what Christ is, is like the experience of the first settlers in some great undiscovered continent; who timidly plant a little fringe of population round its edge and grow their scanty crops there, whilst the great prairies of miles and miles, with all their wealth and fertility, are lying untrodden and unknown in the heart of the untraversed continent. The most powerful telescope leaves nebulae unresolved, which, though they seem but a dim dust of light, are all ablaze with mighty suns. The ‘goodness’ which He has ‘wrought before the sons of men for them that fear’ Him is, as the Psalmist adoringly exclaims, wondrously ‘great,’ but still greater is that which the same verse of the Psalm celebrates—the goodness which He has ‘laid up for them that fear Him.’”
So what kind of circumstances do you find yourself in today? Have you realized yet that His grace is always sufficient and He stands ready to work on your behalf at any moment? What does it take to engage Him ? It’s really quite simple. All He is looking for is for you to come to the realization that you need Him. Still there is one more thing, ask for His help. In a moment you too will taste the infinite goodness of the Lord.