Soul Scientist

Even as a scientist, I can only see a tiny taste of God’s abundant goodness in the world around me – be it under my feet or in a microscope or way above my head in the trees or through a telescope. And those tastes give me a hunger for God even bigger than my appetite for a good church potluck! Yet I delight in knowing this hunger will be fully satisfied by God Himself in measures far beyond my wildest dreams of tables full of my favorite homemade desserts (see Matthew 5:6 and Psalm 34:6).

God’s abundant goodness stored up for me will become more and more evident to me as I seek Him. And these glimpses of God’s goodness will prompt growth in gratitude for His many gifts He sets before me each and every day. Those gifts I can see and those I can’t. Then those glimpses and growing gratitude will become glances into the glorious goodness of my Good God in ways far more than I can ask or imagine (see Ephesians 3:20).     

And those glances won’t even begin to encompass the abundant goodness of the new heaven and new earth of Revelation 21:1 where there won’t be anything less than Jesus filling my gaze and giving far more delight than the hugest of appetites at the very best and biggest church potluck dinners!

Today is only a taste of God’s goodness.

But the return of my Jesus – oh, that beyond the fullest abundance of goodness and grace! His return isn’t just a pipe dream; it’s a promise, a reality, a manifestation of the glorious hope of glory that is my Jesus! The new earth will be ripe with the fullness of His goodness at the marriage supper of the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world for the redemption and return of man in right relationship to our holy and righteous God forever (see Revelation 19:9 and 13:8 and Romans 6:10).

So I join with John in saying this: It is Jesus who tells us that all these messages are true. He says, ‘Yes, I will come soon!’ Amen! We agree! Come, Lord Jesus! (Revelation 2:20 EASY).

Thank You, Father God, You’re never slow in keeping your promises and desiring all to come to repentance (see 2 Peter 3:9). Thank You, Father God, You never stop loving, leading, and holding fast to every one of us as only You can.

And in response to all these truths we say, Amen! We agree! Come, Lord Jesus!, as we look to the eastern sky with expectation. The expectation that in the fullness of time we will see the return of our bright Morning Star, our King Jesus, our hope of glory (see Revelation 22:16 NIV and Colossians 1:27 NIV).

Psalm 31:19 ESVUK. Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind

written by and copyrighted to Beth Madison, Ph.D., 2026.