When we are successful in life and when things are going well for us, what do we think?  Do we think to ourselves, “Wow, I’m such a good athlete, or Wow, I’m such a good father, or Wow, I’m such a hard worker, or Wow, I’m just so smart?”  Is that what we think? 
 
Well, the Bible clearly shows us that all good things (as it says in James 1:17) are truly from God – life, breath, family, job, resources, all of creation.  When we pause for a moment during the course of our day and consider the goodness of God – it should lead us to repentance and bring us to our knees thanking Him for what He has done and believing that what the Bible says is true.
 
Romans 2:4 says that the goodness of God lead you to repentance.
 
In reference to this text, 19th century preacher Charles Spurgeon said, “The goodness of God to a man of evil life is not intended to encourage him to continue in his sin, but it is meant to woo and win him away from it. God manifests His Infinite gentleness and love that He may thereby kill man’s sin and, by His tender mercy, He may win man’s hard heart unto Himself—and by His abundant loving kindness, He may awaken man’s conscience to a sense of his true position in his Maker’s sight, that he may turn away from the sin which he now loves and may seek his God, whom he has despised and neglected.”