At a recent missions conference, the main speaker engaged the audience with the statement, “God is good all the time,” and we would respond, ‘All the time, God is good.”
On one instance when this interaction took place, the speaker commented about our proclamation with the statement “Yes [He is good], it is in His nature.” This spurred my thoughts on to the nature of goodness.
People only do good things. God is far beyond us: He is goodness. I cannot comprehend what this means, although there are some obvious implications. First, God cannot do anything not-good, because that would go against his very being. Next, every action of God is inherently good for the same reason. Finally, it encourages me to know that there is no capriciousness in God. He does not feel like doing good things at times, or not feel like doing good things at other times. He is consistently, fully, and in essence good.
Humanity places value on being good. We act with goodness sometimes because we want to be seen as good. God is good all of the time and therefore his actions are good.
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