Yesterday I wrote about God being All-Powerful. And how that power is governed by His goodness. I grew up in a denomination that gave me the impression that Our Father God was always looking for ways to keep us out of heaven. One misstep and our name disappeared from the Book of Life.
Then someone told me about the love and the goodness of God. Psalm 34:8 invites us to “Taste and see that the LORD is good.”
It is easy to affirm the goodness of God when things are going well. But when life becomes difficult, we can question God’s goodness. The thing we must remember is that God’s goodness is not controlled by our circumstances. His goodness is birthed in His unchanging (immutable) nature.
It is interesting that just a little further in Psalm 34, David declares “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” [vs 19]
God’s goodness does not eliminate “the afflictions of the righteous.” Good people still suffer. But it does carry us through them and promises deliverance out of them. Whatever difficulty we face in this life stays in the grave. It cannot follow us into our eternal inheritance. God is good.
Thank you LORD. Amen & Amen
