God is good.
“You are good and You do good” - Psalm 119:68
“Taste and see that the Lord is good” - Psalm 34:8
God is infinitely good. There is no beginning to God’s goodness and there is no ending to His goodness. There is no limit to God’s goodness. God is always good. It is God’s goodness that makes Him kind-hearted, gracious, and good-natured in all that He does. God cannot stop being good. God cannot be only mostly good at times. God’s character is unchanging. God cannot be indifferent toward anyone or anything. God’s goodness means that He is always good in all His thoughts, in all His intentions, and in all His actions.
God created us and saves us because of His goodness. As sinners, we deserve nothing but death. We could not earn the right to be born because we didn’t even exist! Out of God’s goodness He gives us life. We are born sinners in need of a Savior. God gives us life because He is good and He delights to do good. God’s saves us because He is good and He is full of kindness and grace. We receive His blessing simply because He is good and He chooses to give it to us.
Deuteronomy 7:6-8 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His treasured possession, out of all the people who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery”
How has God been good to you?
A.W. Tozer says “Remember that you can answer every question with this expression: ‘God of His goodness willed it. God out of His kindness willed it.”
Whatever happens to you, is out of God’s good character. That does not mean that we feel like everything is good. Some things will feel bad and hurt. But, God has not stopped being good. God is perfectly good at all times. Because God is infinite, because God is immanent, because God is immense, He is able to use His goodness in ways we do not understand. We must choose to trust God is who He says He is. God declares Himself to be good. Your feelings don’t change that fact.
Isaiah 63:7 says, “I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord, the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel that He has granted them according to His compassion, according to the abundance of His steadfast love.”
Psalm 100:5 says, “For the Lord is good; His steadfast love endures forever, and His faithfulness to all generations.”
When in your life have you doubted God’s goodness?
What has happened in your life that you don’t feel is good?
What does God’s word say about those situations?
Will you choose to trust God’s goodness? Will you choose to say, “God allowed this situation because He is good and His intentions for me are good”?
Getting to know God in relationship:
How will you talk to God differently and read His word differently because of this attribute?