tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15101123060772105852024-03-13T19:26:49.980-07:00FORMIDABLE ELECTRICALFormidablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07829727908838097009noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510112306077210585.post-80641615342449814092019-09-03T10:00:00.000-07:002019-09-03T10:02:02.919-07:00God is good<div>Is God really good and what does that actually mean?</div><div>The question came to me as I pondered a rash of recent</div><div>marriage engagement announcements. From early spring</div><div>through the summer, my Facebook news feed was littered with</div><div>pictures of ring-finger bling and smiling couples squeezing their</div><div>faces together in self-portraits. Many of their status updates</div><div>echoed the same sentiment: “God is good!”</div><div>I don't doubt the words, and the act of two people coming</div><div>together for the purposes of marriage in this messy world is</div><div>certainly something to celebrate. However, I wondered, if we</div><div>call God good when things go right, does it mean He’s not</div><div>good when things go wrong? If one person is hearing wedding</div><div>bells and another is served with divorce papers, has God’s</div><div>goodness changed somehow?</div><div>I immediately went to Scripture and spent some time doing a</div><div>word study on “good”. Let’s just say, the Bible has a lot of</div><div>“good” in it. Using the King James Version, Bible Gateway</div><div>found more than 700 references.</div><div>The first thing I noticed was that God is the ultimate judge of</div><div>what is good. He was the first one to declare something as</div><div>good when, in Genesis 1, He called creation into being.</div><div>Before we can label a person or situation good, we have to</div><div>look to God. And if that’s the case, then we need to look at</div><div>what God’s definition of good is. I’m sure it encompasses many</div><div>things, but here’s what I’ve learned thus far.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1Ke4GbL6-6k/XW6cieYTv1I/AAAAAAAAAAM/YNPJZFsodeMU2cDoUFHAL1N2B0hFPO_UACLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_ORG_1567530019443.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1Ke4GbL6-6k/XW6cieYTv1I/AAAAAAAAAAM/YNPJZFsodeMU2cDoUFHAL1N2B0hFPO_UACLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_ORG_1567530019443.jpeg" alt="" width="200" height="320" data-original-width="750" data-original-height="1200"></a></div><br><br></div>Formidablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07829727908838097009noreply@blogger.com0