God is Good!

“Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the LORD say this-- those he redeemed from the hand of the foe, those he gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south. Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle. They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away. Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.” (Psalms 107:1-6).

Psalm 107 was written after the Judeans came back from exile in Babylon, so this is a Psalm which was written specifically for the returning, exiles to give praise.

We do not know who wrote it. Some Levite, perhaps, wrote it, or someone who sang in the choir, but it was some godly man whom God used to express his praise on behalf of the exiles.

The writers theme is profoundly simple and simply profound…

God is Good!

I remember reading a devotion sometime ago, when the writer stated:

When the Bible says that God is good it means that he is absolutely good. We have a tendency to use that word "good" a lot.

We refer to someone as a "good" man, but we do not really mean that, What we mean is that he is good sometimes, but we do not really think he is absolutely good.

There are times when he may be downright rotten. So we tend to use that word in a relative sense. But when the Bible talks about God as being "good," it means he is absolutely good. James says, "there is no shifting shadow with him," i.e., God's goodness is not like a cloudy day when clouds are being driven through the sky and one moment it is dark and the next moment the sun shines. God is not like that. He is always good.

A man referred to Jesus once as a "good teacher," and Jesus said, "Now wait a minute. Why do you call me good teacher? There is no one good but God." Now he was not disclaiming deity. What he was doing was testing this man's concept of goodness: "Do you understand what you are saying when you say that someone is 'good'?"

God is always good! Always! Nonbeliever’s might believe God is good when there circumstances are pleasant enough, yet a Christian knows the grace and goodness of God even in hardship!

God is good...all the time!