The Origin of Goodness | Origins | Part 3 | Ellie Dole

God spoke, and everything came to be: the sun, moon, stars, oceans, plants, animals, and humans. As we read through Genesis 1, a pattern emerges. God created, paused, observed his creation, and identified everything as good. Genesis also teaches that we are created in God’s image, and as such, have within us the innate ability to identify the goodness all around us. The struggle we face is the pain, suffering, conflict, and inconveniences that often take center stage in our lives. When we allow our thoughts to be fixed on all that is not good, discontentment defines us and how we see the world. But when we become determined to find the goodness in every situation, even when our circumstances don’t change, it changes us. Recognizing goodness brings contentment to our hearts and minds. As we identify God’s goodness, we stomp out the darkness and change our environments. When we choose to look for, identify, and magnify the goodness in every situation, what we are actually doing is looking for, identifying, and magnifying God – because he is the source of all that is good in our world.