The Goodness of God

 "God is so good.  God is so good.  God is so good, He's so good to me."  These are the words of a song from a decade or two or three ago.  They are a statement of fact.  Have you ever considered how the absence of absolute truth has impacted your life?  Allow me to demonstrate what I mean.  Is the fact that God is good absolute?  I think that most of us who believe in Christ Jesus and understand the Scriptures would say that God is good all the time.  And yet our experience of this objective reality tends to emphasize the subjective rather than the objective.  We do not always feel as though God is good because our circumstances sometimes are hard and painful and we have a harder time saying that God is good in the midst of the pain.  

So which is the foundation for our belief?  The objective reality or the subjective experience of life?  Far too often we emphasize the latter and we ignore the objective reality.  Instead we ought to look to God and His Word to define our objective reality and conform our feelings to that which is true instead of conforming our beliefs to that which we feel.