“The Lord is good to all: and His tender mercies are over all His works.”
The title “The Lord Is Good" seems redundant. To say the least, it is to state the obvious. No one in his right mind would say that God is not good, or that God is bad. From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible reveals the goodness of God. The text verse puts God’s goodness in perspective. There is a statement of fact about God, that He is good. What does that mean? Does it mean that God is good in that everything He does, He does to please us? This is not how the Bible describes the goodness of God. The goodness of God is revealed in the fact that God does what is best for us whether we agree with it or not. For example, the goodness of God is seen in Acts, where Paul is trying to get to Rome to visit the church there and to take the message of Christ to the most important venue in the world at that time. Out of His goodness, God willed for Paul to go to Rome. In his letter to the Romans, Paul wrote that he wanted to visit them, and that he planned to visit them soon. Paul’s plan was probably to get on a ship and go to Rome – period. But that’s not how it happened. In the process of getting to Rome, Paul almost lost his life, went through a two year imprisonment in Caesarea, lived through a storm and shipwreck, was bitten by a snake, and eventually got to Rome as a house prisoner. Out of His goodness, God sent Paul to Rome, but He did it the way He would do it. (Hey, He’s God!) How is God’s goodness seen? Think of all the people that Paul encountered during all of the time that he was running for his life, undergoing imprisonment and taking a sea voyage. All of these people needed Jesus as much as the people in Rome, and Paul was used as God’s instrument to reach those people. Who is say that in all of the good and bad things that happen in your life, God is not trying to use you for the benefit of others? There is a statement of fact about the goodness of the Lord – He is good to all. This is difficult for us to see since there is so much suffering all over the world. That God is good to all does not mean everything is going good for all, but that God’s intention for the world is good. What has God done out of His goodness for the whole world? Read it: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” To most of the world, this news falls on deaf ears, but that is not God’s fault. We live in a fallen world, and in a fallen world suffering, war and all kinds of things take place, but this does not erase the fact that God loved the world so much that He sent His Son to redeem it. Jesus died for the whole world, and the whole world goes its own way regardless of what God has done out of His goodness. Suffice it to say, God is good to you, and wants to bless you. Stop running from Him and experience the goodness that He has for you!!! There is a statement of fact about the nature of God – “and His tender mercies are over all His works.” The God of the Bible is a merciful God, and His mercies are included in everything that He does. The Bible tells us that God disciplines those He loves, those who belong to Him. He disciplines us out of His great mercy to keep us from making worse mistakes than we have already made. It is out of His mercy that God reminds us of our need to live for Him and not for the world, or just for ourselves. If people do not experience God’s mercy it is not His fault. When people run away from our merciful God, He lets them run and they pay the price for it. Throw yourself on God’s mercy! Depend on Him! See your need for Him, and you will experience His “tender mercies.” Bro. Joe
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