Three Things About God’s Goodness

Mar 2

The phrase “God is good,” evokes various responses, but often what follows is “all the time.”

When you hear the words God is good, what comes to your mind? If you think about what Jesus did on the cross, you would be right. God sent His only Son into the world to save us from our sins.

If you think about how God created man in His image, in the beginning when He said, “Let Us make man in Our image.” You would be right; God is good and He created us to be like Him.

If you think about God giving us His Word, His instruction book, so we can live this life well, you would be right. God is good to give us His living Word to navigate life with His Holy Spirit.

If you think about the people who love you, your neighbors, your church, and your family and how much they mean to you, again, you would be right. God is good to give us one another to love and serve while we are on this earth.

But maybe, just maybe, when you hear the words God is good, you wonder, “Is He really?” You think about a friend who just lost a loved one early. Your mind goes to your neighbor who is fighting a continuous sickness. Then there is your boss who is relentless in his ways. Is God good?

Even though we are made in God’s image, in our humanness we tend to think God is like us. We wonder, and in our wonder, we blame while looking for answers to whose fault it is that we live in the fallen world. God gives us the answer in His living Word. Ultimately our first father, Adam, became a traitor and gave away the goodness of God for a lie. Many still live that lie today, asking, is God good?

But because God made us in His image, He had a plan in place for another Adam, the last Adam to set the record straight. That old devil who thinks he still has the upper hand, continues to deceive people into asking the wrong questions. But what he will not admit to is that the last Adam always has the last word because He is the Answer.

John 10:10 states Jesus declares, the thief (that is satan, who stole our rights in the beginning) comes to steal, kill, and destroy, BUT I have come to give you life and to give it to you more abundantly. The ‘cat is out of the bag!’ The bad guy is revealed and God is good!

Let’s talk about the goodness of God as a Healer. We know and believe that every good and perfect gift is from above where God dwells. Healing is good because it is from God. That means that sickness of any kind is from the devil. He continues to bring sickness and cast blame on God when he is the source of this fallen world.

Let’s keep in mind that in the beginning, with Adam and Eve before sin, there was no sickness. None! We can see a part of this as we read Scripture and seek revelation from God. Many Scriptures give us insight into God as the Healer. His plan for mankind is health and wholeness.

These three areas, healing, health, and wholeness belong to all believers.

Healing:

1. In Psalm 103:3, King David declares –who forgives all my iniquities, who heals all your diseases. He continues in Psalm 105 where he recites when all the Jews left Egypt and in verse 37 there was not a feeble one among them. The night before they left, Moses instructed them to roast a lamb, eat all of it, and mark above their doorpost with the blood of the lamb. We can see even then that Jesus was a type and shadow of the Lamb who would come and offer himself as the final sacrifice.

2. The prophet Isaiah prophesies in 53:5 of a Savior that would come into the world and take on stripes that would give us healing. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes, we are healed.

3. We read in all three Gospels many times where Jesus healed the sick. In Matthew 8:16 Jesus’ actions yielded living proof of Isaiah 53:5. When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying, “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.

4. In Mark 1:32-34 and Luke 4:40-41 – we read that He healed many who were sick and cast out demons. Jesus demonstrated these two miracles almost always simultaneously. He followed His Father’s lead.

5. Jesus healed often while on the earth before He went to the cross. He demonstrated the Father’s will for healing while fulfilling prophecy and freeing mankind of the curse of sickness.

6. John 19:30, we read Jesus’ final words while hanging on the cross. It is finished! The final price of the cross bought salvation from mankind’s sins, sicknesses, and poverty.

7. The Apostle Peter verifies Isaiah’s prophecy as past tense having already been fulfilled in I Peter 2:24. Peter declares by His stripes we WERE healed.

Health:

The Apostle John leaves us with this Scripture in III John 2. Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. John would not have prayed for it if it were not possible.

Wholeness:

Wholeness speaks of the whole person. We are a spirit because we are made in God’s image, and He is Spirit. We have a soul, a mind, will, and emotions. We live in a body. These three parts make up the whole of who you and I are. In I Thessalonians 5:23, Paul writes, Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In Luke 8:43-48 - The woman with the issue of blood for 12 years, Jesus said, “Woman, your faith has made you whole.” Complete, spirit, soul, body.

Let us not confuse God to be like us, but to know that we are made to be like Him. He is not moved according to our circumstances but by our faith amid our circumstances. Today, I urge you to look at God through the Bible lens, not the world lens, and receive the truth about healing, health, and wholeness. The price was paid for you and me.

Until next time, remember, the heart of the matter is the matter of the heart.

Dr. Michele / March 2, 2025

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