Genesis 1:31
God Made All Things and They Were Very Good
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning —the sixth day.
John 1:3
Jesus Made All Things
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
Colossians 1:15-17
By Jesus All Things Are Created
Romans 8:28
Good Things Made
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Moses tells us when God created the heavens and the earth -the things He created and made were very good...St. John says Jesus made all things, without Him nothing was made that has been made...St. Paul wrote that Jesus created all things; things in heaven and things on earth...Those things that are visible, and those things that are invisible, which we cannot see with the naked eye...All things were created by Him and for Him...And St. Paul goes on to say that all these things that Jesus created and made works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose...Some where along the path and the way, things got messed up...But God is Love, and what He originally created was very good...God alone is good (Mark 10:18)...
I think in these verses, one must believe in the Trinity of God, the Father, and Jesus, the Son, and the divine Holy Spirit, which He sent...The first of the Trinity is God...Who is our creator...The second part of the Trinity is His Son, Jesus -who has always been with Him...And the third part is the Holy Spirit, in us...It helps me to believe that Jesus was fully Man and fully Divine when He came to earth...He has at least two natures (and maybe many more, after all He is Divine)...I relate this to man...We have a mind and body and a soul (or spirit, a Holy Spirit) in us which gives us three parts or three natures...
But for St. Paul to add, that in all things that God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose is also a hard and tough verse to understand...And St. Paul does not say "some things", he says "all things"...It is hard because of the trials and tribulations of man...The things that man does to other men, or the crimes that man does to other women -how do we and can we find good in all the calamities of life?...Much like Job who was given much affliction, followers of Jesus are to find good things in suffering...When we look to the cross, we do see righteous suffering from humanities perspective...So when tragedy, illness, death, or calamity strikes us or our family -how are followers of Christ to handle it?...We can become hardened, bitter, and calloused to those bad things that happen to us -and when we do our life becomes that way...Life can be hard, bitter, calloused and negative...It is then hard to find good in things...And when Jesus tells us to not only pray for our enemies, but to love them, we understand His Divinity, and maybe not our own strengths...When we are weak, we have and need to seek Him...It is a theme, I think, in His Sermons on the Mount and the Plain...When we really need Him, He is there for those who believe and love Him, and have been called according to His purpose...Those that are called and are the true followers of Christ -look to Him in their sufferings...These followers can make it through the tragedies of life...Because they know and love God...And because believers believe not only that man causes most, if not all life's tragedies (if you believe in the fall of man, beginning with Adam and Eve), then these followers do believe that He does have a plan, and that plan will work out in the end according to His purpose...This is because God is in control...There is nothing beyond His ability to fix and control...He can make all things new...He can fix tragedy...
Life sometimes, if not always, has and makes things happen to us...Some are not good or good for us...It is how we believe and love God that gives us the ability to move forward...He is what makes us able to go on with life in a positive way and a good way...Then we better see that in the end, that we have been looking for Him in our afflictions...He has give us hope and support...And when we believe in this hope and support, we better see that good that comes our of His Love, that St. Paul writes about...