A GOOD MAN

“ For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith.”

(Acts 11:24)

As a novice in the Lord, the young man Saul (Paul) followed this good and godly man, and Paul was the better for it all his life. The same is true of all who follow in  the steps of good men. We have a lot of emphasis today on great men, but little is heard of good men. You can be a great man without being a good man, but you can’t be a good man without being a great man, in the Lord’s sight. We also have the same thing said of Joseph as was said of Barnabas, “There was a man named Joseph...

and he was a good man, and a just, (Lk. 23:50).

The wise man tells us we should “walk in the way of good men,” (Prov. 2:20); and Paul exhorts young Titus to be “a lover of good men,” (Titus 1:8). The Bible has nothing but good to say about good men: The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. (Psa. 37:23);  A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD. (Prov. 12:2); A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children. (Prov. 13:22); A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good, (Lk. 6:45).

At times, when I observe the culture that surrounds us I feel like Micah of old, “The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men, (Mic. 7:2). But thank God at such times I am reminded of what God told Elijah, when he thought he was the only one left, “But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal, (Rom. 11:4). There is— and always will be— a few good men left!

The old adage says, “Birds of a feather flock together.” Why not each of us, starting today, flock to “good men.”