HE IS GOOD

God is good. He is good all the time, and all the time, God is good.

But He didn’t have to be good, you know. He could have created a cruel and unfair world. He could step on us or torture us like some celestial schoolboy with common ants. He could make a promise and then change.

Yet, if He wasn’t good, He would still be worthy of praise, because He is Creator. As Creator, He sets the rules. And the rules of the Creator must be right, even if they are not what we would see as morally or ethically fair. We, as His creation, would glorify Him because He is the all-powerful Creator.

We claim that God is good. Is there any objective evidence to suggest that God is, in fact, good? Does creation support the claim that God is good?

Psalm 19 says that the heavens are telling the glory of God. For example, the psalmist describes how the sun is faithful and powerful.
Romans 1:18-20 says that God’s eternal power and divine nature are clearly seen through what he has made.

Many have concluded that God is bad, based on their personal experience or observation. Personal grief and loss perhaps makes God seem unfair. Perhaps they have observed the harshness of so-called “acts of God,” such as a tsunami, tornado or drought. Maybe they have seen the injustice of humans toward one another, and see no intervention from heaven, and they conclude that God is either not loving or not powerful. Like the servant who buried his talent in the ground, they say to God, “I know that you are a hard man.”

But perhaps it is we who are not good. Perhaps God had established a truly perfect world, which itself is now fallen due to sin. Perhaps the Great Flood, for example, came because every thought and action of mankind, not of God, was evil.

So perhaps what creation proclaims loud and clear is the grace and mercy of God. Perfect. Fallen. Restored. Paradise made. Paradise lost. Paradise found. Jesus Christ came into the mess of this world to restore, to heal, and most importantly to join us in our state.

Praise God. He is good, all the time. And all the time, God is good.