God is good
Is God really good and what does that actually mean? The question came to me as I pondered a rash of recent marriage engagement announcements. From early spring through the summer, my Facebook news feed was littered with pictures of ring-finger bling and smiling couples squeezing their faces together in self-portraits. Many of their status updates echoed the same sentiment: “God is good!” I don't doubt the words, and the act of two people coming together for the purposes of marriage in this messy world is certainly something to celebrate. However, I wondered, if we call God good when things go right, does it mean He’s not good when things go wrong? If one person is hearing wedding bells and another is served with divorce papers, has God’s goodness changed somehow? I immediately went to Scripture and spent some time doing a word study on “good”. Let’s just say, the Bible has a lot of “good” in it. Using the King James Version, Bible Gateway found more than 700 references. The first ...