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God Is Good

Every Page of the Bible Teaches It

The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble and He knows those who trust in Him.

Nahum 1:7 NKJV

That God is good is taught or implied on every page of the Bible and must be received as an article of faith as impregnable as the throne of God.

A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1992), 128.

No society resents God like our society. We feel that we are owed a good life free from trouble negated of suffering full of prosperity. If our lives do not meet our expectations, we resent God, and question his goodness. Constantly intellectuals are confirming our offense. We have been mistreated by God and everyone should know our pain. Therefore, we live our lives as victims of the injustices of the Almighty God.

Biblically, God’s goodness is affirmed and glorified. God is gracious in that he reaches out to us in a world scarred and marred by our sin. God is good for he always tells the truth, keep his promises, and loves us with a love that surpasses any human love. God is sovereign, he is wise, and he is loving.

God in his love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

Jerry Bridges, Trusting G0d Even When Life Hurts (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2008), 17.

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Long Live God!?!

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The Eternal God

From eternity to eternity I am God. No one can snatch anyone out of my hand. No one can undo what I have done.

Is 43:13 (NLT)

By definition God belongs to eternity, not to time, and so is intrinsically immortal. The last Archbishop of Canterbury but one, Dr. Ramsey, appeared not to realize this when, to my amazement, at the end of a performance of Godspell, he rose to his feet and shouted, ‘Long live God,’ which, as I reflected at the time, was like shouting ‘Carry on eternity’ or ‘Keep going infinity.’ The incident made a deep impression on my mind because it illustrated the basic difficulty I met with when I was editor of Punch [magazine]: that the eminent so often say and do things which are infinitely more ridiculous than anything you can invent for them. That might not sound to you like a terrible difficulty but it is, believe me, the main headache of the editor of an ostensibly humorous paper. You go to great trouble to invent a ridiculous Archbishop of Canterbury and give him ridiculous lines to say and then suddenly he rises in his seat at the theater and shouts out ‘Long live God.’ And you’re defeated, you’re broken.”

Malcolm Muggeridge, The End of Christendom (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1980), 13.

HT: Raymond Ortlund