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Now on to my thoughts for the day…
I often hear people declare “God is good!” after they receive good news. I know they are celebrating the goodness and compassion of God because they have recently been moved to do so by their happy circumstances, and that’s a great idea!
But I am always tempted to assert: “Well, of course He is good! He was good yesterday before you received this great news. He will still be good next month when you are laid off from your job, or your niece is paralyzed in a car accident. He was good when my son died of brain cancer. He is good all the time, not just when good things happen. Our tragedies don’t negate His innate goodness.
I may not always sense His goodness. But my feelings don’t determine God’s nature. Goodness is His character, and that does not change with my circumstances, or with my moods.
He is the self-existent One, complete in Himself, in need of nothing and no one. Any favor He shows us flows out of His mercy toward us. He is always good.
Psalm 118:1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.