God is good all the time, and all the time God is good. 

I thank God for putting breath in my lungs every day that I wake up. Every day I wake up, it’s a reminder that God is not finished with me yet. He still has a plan for me. I thank God for waking up today, because I know people who didn’t get the chance. 

I thank God for His Grace and His Mercy that He bestows on me each day. I thank Him for never leaving my side and for never turning His back on me, no matter how many times I do to Him. 

I thank God for sparing my life when I should’ve lost it countless times. I thank Him for bringing me out of situations where I could have lost myself. I thank God for giving me hope each day. I thank Him for giving me hope and reminding me that everything will be ok. I thank God for reminding me that my circumstance and situation doesn’t define who I am because he has the last say. No matter what my friends or family may say, their words can’t hurt me because God has the last say. I thank God for peace. A peace that surpasses all understanding so even when something doesn’t make sense I know that God has a plan for it. 

I thank God for his unconditional love. I thank him for loving me no matter what. The love I have for God sometimes is conditional, which means that I will only love him when he does something for me. He reminds me to love him unconditionally the same way he does to me. I thank him for loving me more than I love myself. If I loved myself the way God did I wouldn’t have put myself through all the ups and downs I’ve been through. 

I thank God for never letting me down. The people we call friends and family will be the first ones to let us down, but God will never. God has a plan for me. He has a plan to prosper me and not to harm me, but to give me hope that my future will be ok. 

Even when my faith is tested I’ll remember he is there, and will always be there for me. When my path seems a little harder I know that I have people he’s brought into my life to hold onto. The truth is the walk with God never gets easier. There will always be a small part of you that wants to turn back to what was before the first steps were taken. They call that your flesh, one thing I’ve learned so far is that what you feed grows and what you starve dies.., so the call of the flesh grows quieter with each step. 

His love never grows quiet, just like the story of the Prodigal Son. I return to him like a son whose father told him not to run, but he did anyway; God lets us learn on our own what happens when we try to do things our way. In the end, we run back to him and he turns around with a smile and open arms. In the end, God showed me what it truly means to love even when the world tells you not to.

I know the things God allows to happen to me are for a reason. They are not for no reason because I know he will use my trials as a testimony. I know the things I’ve been through in my life molded me to be the man I am today. I thank God for the hard times in life. If it wasn’t for the hard times in life I wouldn’t get to experience the true goodness of God. Looking back on situations I’ve been through in my life, it may have not made sense at the time. Shoot, I probably wanted to curse God for what he allowed me to go through. But now I can see why he allowed me to go through those trials, to protect me from something that could have been detrimental. 

God is good all the time, and all the time God is good.