God Is Good
ṭôb / tov / טוב (Strong 2896)
God's goodness is His moral perfection manifested by His infinite love, compassion, benevolence, mercy, and grace. He is by nature favorably inclined toward His creation, which He demonstrates by His great works of kindness (goodness in action) for our welfare and benefit...ultimately the blessing of salvation in the substitutionary atonement of His Son.
It is contrasted with ra` (Strong 7451) - evil, bad, wicked, malevolent.
Because the LORD is infinitely wise, He knows what is good, and what is evil (Genesis 3:5), and what is best for His creation, and us; blessings and not curses.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NLT)
For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."
Psalm 31:19
Oh, how abundant is your goodness,
which you have stored up for those who fear you
and worked for those who take refuge in you.
Psalm 34:8
Taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
Psalm 86:5
You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to you.
Psalm 119:68
You are good, and what you do is good; teach me your decrees.
Psalm 136:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever.
Psalm 145:9
The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he had made.
Richard Baxter A Christian Directory
(God) is infinitely and inconceivably good. If you conceive of God as ten thousand times more gracious and loving than any friend you have in the world, it will make you love him above all.
A.W. Pink on The Goodness of God
http://www.pbministries.org/books/pink/Attributes/attrib_11.htm
A.W. Tozer The Knowledge of the Holy
The word good means so many things to so many persons that this brief study of the divine goodness begins with a definition. The meaning may be arrived at only by the use of a number of synonyms, going out from and returning by different paths to the same place.
When Christian theology says that God is good, it is not the same as saying that He is righteous or holy. The holiness of God is trumpeted from the heavens and re-echoed on earth by saints and sages wherever God has revealed Himself to men; however, we are not at this time considering His holiness but His goodness, which is quite another thing.
The goodness of God is that which disposes Him to be kind, cordial, benevolent, and full of good will toward men. He is tenderhearted and of quick sympathy, and His unfailing attitude toward all moral beings is open, frank, and friendly. By His nature He is inclined to bestow blessedness and He takes holy pleasure in the happiness of His people.
That God is good is taught or implied on every page of the Bible and must be received as an article of faith as impregnable as the throne of God. It is a foundation stone for all sound thought about God and is necessary to moral sanity. To allow that God could be other than good is to deny the validity of all thought and end in the negation of every moral judgment. If God is not good, then there can be no distinction between kindness and cruelty, and heaven can be hell and hell, heaven.
The goodness of God is the drive behind all the blessings He daily bestows upon us. God created us because He felt good in His heart, and He redeemed us for the same reason.
Julian of Norwich, who lived 600 years ago, saw clearly that the ground of all blessedness is the goodness of God. Chapter six of her incredibly beautiful and perceptive little classic, Revelations of Divine Love, begins, "This showing was made to learn our souls to cleave wisely to the goodness of God." Then she lists some of the mighty deeds God has wrought in our behalf, and after each one she adds "of His goodness." She saw that all our religious activities and every means of grace, however right and useful they may be, are nothing until we understand that the unmerited, spontaneous goodness of God is back of all and underneath all His acts.
Divine goodness, as one of God's attributes, is self-caused, infinite, perfect, and eternal. Because God is immutable He never varies in the intensity of His loving-kindness. He has never been kinder than He now is, nor will He ever be less kind. He is no respecter of persons but makes His sun to shine on the evil as well as on the good, and sends His rain on the just and on the unjust. The cause of His goodness is in Himself; the recipients of His goodness are all His beneficiaries without merit and without recompense.
With this agrees reason, and the moral wisdom that knows itself runs to acknowledge that there can be no merit in human conduct, not even in the purest and the best. Always God's goodness is the ground of our expectation. Repentance, though necessary, is not meritorious but a condition for receiving the gracious gift of pardon that God gives of His goodness. Prayer is not in itself meritorious. It lays God under no obligation nor puts Him in debt to any. He bears prayer because He is good, and for no other reason. Nor is faith meritorious; it is simply confidence in the goodness of God, and the lack of it is a reflection upon God's holy character.
Do good in Thy good pleasure unto us, O Lord. Act toward us not as we deserve but as it becomes Thee, being the God Thou art. So shall we have nothing to fear in this world or in that which is to come. Amen.
Charles Wesley “O God, My Hope, My Heavenly Rest”
O GOD, my hope, my heavenly rest,
My all of happiness below,
Grant my importunate request,
To me, to me, thy goodness show;
Thy beatific face display,
The brightness of eternal day.
Before my faith's enlightened eyes
Make all thy gracious goodness pass;
Thy goodness is the sight I prize,
O might I see thy smiling face!
Thy nature in my soul proclaim,
Reveal thy love, thy glorious name!
Kari Jobe "Your Nature"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PvFJcaY4Uo
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