You'd no doubt heard the phrase Carpe Diem or Seize the Day, which is often used to

urge someone to make the most of the present time with little regard for the future.

But today on Truth For Life, we'll find out that knowing God changes how we live now

and how we think about what lies ahead.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Nehemiah 9 verses 6-15.

I have one main heading this morning, it's the first of four which will follow, and it

is simply this, God's goodness is revealed in all that He has done.

And this is expressed very clearly between verse 6 and verse 15.

Well then in what way has God revealed His goodness in His dealings with man, first of

all we're told in verse 6 in the act of creation?

You alone are the Lord, you made the heavens, even the highest heavens and all their

stary host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them.

You give life to everything and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

God you see is self-existent, God is self-sufficient, God did not need a universe nor did

God need creatures.

God is perfectly at one within the framework of the Trinity.

So then why a universe answer because God is good.

And it is only His goodness which explains the fact that the whole of creation was brought

out of the womb and the darkness of nothingness.

It is, says the writer here, God who set the stars in place and structured the heavens.

It is God who has set up His lamp stands of your light or His lamp posts to direct our

motion and to regulate our seasons.

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