God is good

God is good – all the time! In all his dealings with us there is an unqualified commitment to our well being. He is for us unreservedly. He freely gives us all things. He desires our success more than we can imagine. He has truly forgotten our sins, and unleashed all the blessings of heaven upon us. There can be no more foundational truth for us to believe than this. If God is not good, then there is no gospel, no good news. Just think about it: who would want to be reconciled to a God who is malicious, devious, vengeful or wilful?! But God is good, his mercies are never ending.

In practice we struggle to live in this belief. The daily run of disappointments, opposition and hardship which we experience cause us to qualify to the goodness of God. God is good, but… We submit stoically to the batterings and bruisings as in some sense the dealings of God in our life.  “God has sent the suffering to teach me things.” In so doing we slander God and believe the lies of the devil. We attribute to God a brutality of discipline that we would be appalled to apply to our own children. If what we call the goodness of God doesn’t look good then maybe it isn’t the goodness of God!? Maybe God is concerned with enjoying us as a father enjoys his children, more than panel-beating our lives for us.

It is time for the confession that God is good to become our daily warfare. It is time for us to believe to experience the goodness of God as good. It is time to entrust ourselves fully to the father who delights to bless us and who honours us with the position of sons.

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Blessings

Richard