God is so good...
It’s phrase we often hear, but is he?
God is so good is phrase we so often use and if I’m honest sometimes it tugs at my heart when we use it. Someone gets engaged... God is so good. Someone gets a new job... God is so good! Someone gets a negative cancer scan... God is so good. Someone is healed from a surgery... God is so good. Someone gets pregnant... God is so good. Someone gets a raise at work to cover a financial need... God is so good. That hurricane skirted around us... God is so good. It’s a phrase that sometimes causes my heart to sink when I use it... Because on the opposite end of all those statements is the person who still hasn’t found their soulmate, the person who lost their job, their house, and just buried a loved one who lost their fight with cancer all in the same month. There is someone who’s entire Island was wiped out in that storm that somehow advertenly avoided yours. Is God still good then? What happens when we define God’s goodness based on our circumstances alone or those that directly affect us? Would you walk over to someone who’s wife just died and say praise God he is so good? Or to the person who’s cancer is out of remission... God is so good! Or say to the kids who face starvation and die every single day around the world because there isn’t enough to meet their needs... praise God he is so good. To the women and children enslaved in sex-trafficking... God is so good. To the mom whose child overdosed... God is so good. That same phrase, the one that makes us feel all warm and tingly in the right circumstances takes on a whole new meaning under the other set of circumstances, is that fair to say? You see when we attach God’s goodness to our circumstances it takes on a whole new light. When the sun is shining and things are going just as planned it’s easy to feel God’s goodness BUT God’s goodness isn’t based on the answered prayers, it’s not based on the mountaintop seasons. It’s not based on when we feel blessed. It has to be deeper than that or when we tragically lose someone we love, or watch them struggle with dementia, or see a child dying of cancer... we will doubt that God is good, that God is loving, that God is in control even when life seems out of control and our world is coming undone. Yes!! God is good... but he is good all the time, beyond our circumstances, beyond the small sliver we can see in our present circumstances. God’s goodness exceeds what our limited perception can see. God’s goodness penetrates through what Satan intends for evil and destruction in our lives. God’s goodness expands beyond our generation and blesses a thousand generations both past, present, and future. God’s goodness isn’t restrained by the limits of time.  Even when life hurts and you don’t understand the bigger picture... God is still good.
Even when our hearts are broken and you feel like things will never turn around... God is still good.
God is infinitely bigger than our current circumstances, his plan far exceeds what our limited minds can comprehend. His goodness doesn’t fade like people’s attempts do... it is simply who he is. So the answer is yes God is good, without tasting His goodness we’d never be able to gage goodness any other way because his goodness is pure, unlike our own tainted versions of goodness, he never fails and his promises are true. So when life hurts, cling to him tightly and trust he is working all things together for our good.
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