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“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
Romans 8:28 KJV

Whenever I’m posed with the question, “How is God good when bad things happen?” I run immediately to the cross where Jesus faced the worst thing.

Yet He was willing to bear the crushing weight of sin, to absorb the fireball of the Father’s wrath that should have been hurled at humanity. He was willing to be rejected so that we could be accepted.

How could that possibly have been good? How could a good God willingly turn away from His Son? How could the Son also willingly offer His life?

The powers of hell thought they’d won. The one called Messiah hung there dead. God lost. He was not powerful, and apparently, He was not good.

But, oh, my friends don’t stop there! The plan was bigger, the goodness of God incomprehensible. On the third day, Jesus rose to conquer death and hell!

Don’t miss the radical nature of what Jesus accomplished. He purchased salvation. He satisfied God’s righteous wrath toward sinful men. He redeemed His own, buying back those who once went a whoring after other gods. While we were His enemies, He died for us.

He is good. It is His very nature. From the heart of the Father, flowed the grand plan of redemption before time began. At the cross, it came to fruition. God saved men from Himself. God saved men to Himself.

Jesus faced the ultimate bad so that we could know the ultimate good.

Life. Hope. Peace. Grace. Eternity. Reconciliation.

Therefore, if God has already done the ultimate good to me, He will always do good to me. I can count on that!

~Ami

God is good. Is that difficult to say? We hope that this series from our team has helped guide you through Scripture to a better grasp of this idea. Here is the eighth in our series. Read the previous posts here: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine.