Is God Really Good?

Would you say that God is good if the following scenario happened to you or a loved one?  Your teenager is struggling with a drug addiction and has been for years, you are diagnosed with a debilitating, potentially crippling disease, your best friend of 25 years is divorcing your brother after 16 years of marriage, your grandbaby dies on Christmas eve, your daughter in law and two grandchildren are in a horrible accident, the children are air lifted to a hospital with life threatening injuries; the accident leaves your four year old grandson paralyzed from the neck down.  How could anyone say that God is good while they are going through such hardships and heartaches? 

The truth is……I didn’t think about it until just recently.  For the past two years I have been studying Gods Word and depending on Him for the strength to get through each day; every hour of each day, but really didn’t think about His goodness until last week.  After listening to the testimony of a man, who had been married for 24 years, had three kids and lost not only his memory but the ability to walk and talk.  He didn’t know what words were or what they meant.  His testimony is “God is so good”.  It was then I realized that I’ve known this all along but just never thought about it…I just knew it…...felt it…..depended on it.

God has brought me through so many heartaches and hardships and as a result it has brought me closer to Him than I ever have been.  We are created for His purpose and His pleasure and I was missing out on that before all of this stuff started happening.  Think about it…….For HIS PLEASURE.  Do I really please God?  Me?  I believe I do when I am thankful for everything; the good and the bad.  God will use my suffering for His purpose and His pleasure and He will be glorified because of it.

We don’t just have good things happening or just bad things happening in our lives.  We have good and bad things happening simultaneously.  We must be thankful in all things and give God the glory.  I just have so many praises for what God has done in my life, especially over the past two years!  It is amazing how much I have grown spiritually.  My relationship with God sustains me because no matter what the circumstance I know that He is essentially, infinitely, perfectly, immutably, and solely good.

Are you thankful for everything?  Do you believe that God is good always…....no matter what your circumstance?????  God loves you, take refuge in Him.