God is always good – Tuesday, 30 January

“O taste and see that the Lord [our God] is good! Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts and takes refuge in Him.”
Psalm 34:8 AMPC

I remember receiving Jesus and becoming a Christian at an early age. I grew up with a passion for Jesus and a desire to live for Him but my life radically changed and my relationship with God vastly improved the day I realized how much God loves me, and how good He is. 

“We love Him, because He first loved us.”
1 John 4:19 AMPC

When I had a deeper revelation of the love and goodness of God it helped me to love God even more.

I’ve never met a Christian that doesn’t believe that God is good, but I have met many Christians who haven’t tasted and seen that the Lord is good. They still believe in the goodness of God, but their idea of His goodness is often twisted. They’ll wrongly say that God is good and that in His goodness He’s given you cancer or organized some tragedy for you, and you may not understand it because He works in mysterious ways. The truth is that God doesn’t work like that!

Sickness and tragedy are not good things – even an unbeliever fights sickness and deals with tragic situations as though they are enemies. Sometimes “the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.” (Luke 16:8) You have to be religious to think that something evil (sickness, poverty, pain, suffering) is actually something good. God dealt with all the results of the fall (sin, sickness, lack, pain, suffering) on the cross through Jesus. Yes, these things still exist, and yes, you can learn something while experiencing sin, sickness, lack, pain or suffering, but through faith in what Jesus has done for us, we can experience redemption from these things.

I was ministering to a young man recently who lost his mother a year ago. He thought that because he was not treating his mother well and because of some things that he had done wrong, God gave her some illness, made her suffer and then killed her. Since the day she died he’s been living in torment. This torment led to drug abuse, demonic torment, and depression.

After he heard me preach on the goodness of God from John chapter 10 verse 10, he asked me, “are you saying that God gives life but the enemy kills and brings destruction?” I said that Jesus Himself said that He came to give us life abundant and it’s the devil who brings destruction and death. He looked at me completely astonished. I said to Him, “That’s good news, isn’t it!” He responded by saying, “Now I can love God more because He really is good.” He was completely set free!

I know that this topic needs much more time and in-depth teaching because the majority of us have grown up believing religious lies, but hear me out and get the heart of what I want to leave with you, today: God is good and He isn’t the author of any suffering. In fact, He is the answer to our suffering!