The good life!

I woke up this morning with an incredible thought in my mind, a very simple thought, yet still incredible: I exist. WOW! Yeah, I know I am not the brightest crayon in the box, but for some reason this morning it seemed very profound to me. Following this thought I came to the realization that I exist ONLY because God exists, if no God, then no me; no nothing. I personally know this God, only because He first made Himself known to me by showing me how much He loves me. How you might ask? Well, by sending His only son to die for my sins: Jesus. He is almighty, all knowing, ever present, all good, all loving, and all righteous. Because He is all these attributes and I am exactly NONE of these, having Him in my life creates in me the good life. I know that there are people who would completely disagree with the fact that the God revealed in the pages of the bible is good. I, too often doubt the goodness of God when I read of certain things in scripture or when I am going through strife and struggles in my own life. But, as I stated before I am NOT by any means all knowing, almighty etc. Therefore, I am not qualified to make such a statement, what I see is just a small fraction of the big picture. I cannot even count how many times in my life I thought that a situation or event was the worst thing in the world then days weeks or months later I saw that even in this 'horrible' time good came from it. It's like looking at one pixel of a bigger picture sometimes that particular pixel may appear to be dark and unappealing but then when we pull back we see the whole beautiful picture of a sunset in Tahiti. God is good!