My wife and I have a testimony about God’s goodness to us that we want to share with you. It involves all three persons of the trinity:

1. The Father who has providentially supplied all our bodily needs and comforts.
2. The Son who indwells His body, the Church, and comforts, encourages and strengthens us through friends and loving relationships.
3. The Spirit who is a deposit in our hearts of things to come (Ephesians 1:14) and enables us to see the Kingdom of God (John 3:3).

The Father

First of all, the fact that we are born into a Western society with all its material advantages is something that we are thankful for. We had no choice about where we were born or what parents we had, or our gender or physical attributes. All these things come from a Father who has thought of us and ordained our days before any one of our days happened (Psalm 139). Such knowledge is too great for us.

There are so many factors about our lives that we have no say in. We can’t do much, if anything, about the peace we have in the countries we have lived in for years. Most of the economic aspects of our lives are also beyond our control.

We say that our Dad has done well and thank Him for our lines have fallen to us in pleasant places (Psalm 16:6).

The Son

No man is an island as the poet John Dunne said. We need other humans to survive. The commandment Jesus gave to us that we should love one another (John 13:34, 15:12, 17) is not a burdensome command that must be obeyed but a loving instruction from God the Son who knows our lives depend on social interaction.

Our souls crave friendship and companionship and we have personally found that need most deeply met in the body of Christ. God’s Spirit inhabits His Church leading to common understandings among its members of the meaning of true love and service.

We can both look back over 45+ years of friends of God and ourselves being there for us when we needed them and when we just wanted to spend time with them. There have been some let downs along the way, as there are for anyone in this world, but the exceptions should really only reinforce the general rule that members of the church of Christ are those through whom we can have wonderful, real, human interactions in this world. And those interactions include in our case, thankfully, our marriage and relationships with our children. We are most blessed. Not everyone is so blessed.

The Spirit

If the Father looks after our bodily needs and the Son our needs for brothers and sisters then the Spirit ministers to the more hidden needs of the heart. The Spirit tells us in our hearts that we are children of God (Romans 8:15, 1 John 3:1, 2). He puts hope in our hearts of heaven (Eph. 1:14). He comforts us in all our different troubles (2 Cor. 1:3-7) and helps us to pray when we don’t know what to pray (Romans 8:26-27).

Because of the Holy Spirit we can worship God acceptably in Spirit and truth (John 4:23, 24).

We have experienced all the above and continue to do so. These experiences are backed up by Scripture.

We hope you don’t despise this little testimony of ours. We are just one couple’s example of how knowing God and Jesus Christ has affected us but our testimony is precious and meaningful to us.

There is even more that could be said about the goodness of God in our lives.