{"id":72268,"date":"2025-05-02T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/?p=72268"},"modified":"2025-04-18T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T15:55:13","slug":"god-is-good-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/god-is-good-2\/","title":{"rendered":"God Is Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Scripture Reading: Exodus 33:17-23, 1 Chronicles 16:34-36, Psalm 119:68, John 10:1-18, John 10:25-39, Matthew 7:7-11, 2 Peter 1:3-4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To say God is good speaks directly to His personal character, to the overflow of His heart\u2014and to who He is in relationship to us. He is never absent, disinterested, careless, ill-tempered, petty, spiteful, or mean. He is set apart from all evil and does what is right, faithful, kind, and true. Always. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

True goodness is defined by who God is. He doesn\u2019t just do good; He is good. In Psalm 119:68, the psalmist prays, \u201cYou are good, and you do what is good; teach me your statutes.\u201d A key to understanding the goodness of God is learning who He is through His Word. If we don\u2019t learn His statutes, we will bring our own definitions and impose them on God. And when He doesn\u2019t do what we think He should, we will accuse Him of failing to be \u201cgood\u201d by our own standards\u2014not His.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In His goodness, God is our ultimate provider. If we ask for bread, He will not give us a harmful serpent or a useless stone; He will give us what we need (Luke 11:11; Matthew 7:9\u201311). God\u2019s character defines what is good, something neither we nor our circumstances can do. Our viewpoint will always be limited as to what is good, but God\u2019s never is. The effects of sin in the world never compromise God\u2019s goodness either\u2014when life feels like it\u2019s all bad, God is still entirely good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He does good because He is good. In all ways and in all things, God is good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by The She Reads Truth Team<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scripture Reading: Exodus 33:17-23, 1 Chronicles 16:34-36, Psalm 119:68, John 10:1-18, John 10:25-39, Matthew 7:7-11, 2 Peter 1:3-4 To say God is good speaks directly to His personal character, to the overflow of His heart\u2014and to who He is in relationship to us. He is never absent, disinterested, careless, ill-tempered, petty, spiteful, or mean. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attributes2025"],"acf":{"hero_background_image":false,"related_plans":[72081],"weekly_truth":false,"grace_day":false,"share_text":"#SheReadsTruth","devotional_text":"GOD IS GOOD<\/b>

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To say God is good speaks directly to His personal character, to the overflow of His heart\u2014and to who He is in relationship to us. He is never absent, disinterested, careless, ill-tempered, petty, spiteful, or mean. He is set apart from all evil and does what is right, faithful, kind, and true. Always.<\/p>
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True goodness is defined by who God is. He doesn\u2019t just do good; He is good. In Psalm 119:68, the psalmist prays, \u201cYou are good, and you do what is good; teach me your statutes.\u201d A key to understanding the goodness of God is learning who He is through His Word. If we don\u2019t learn His statutes, we will bring our own definitions and impose them on God. And when He doesn\u2019t do what we think He should, we will accuse Him of failing to be \u201cgood\u201d by our own standards\u2014not His.<\/p>
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In His goodness, God is our ultimate provider. If we ask for bread, He will not give us a harmful serpent or a useless stone; He will give us what we need (Luke 11:11; Matthew 7:9\u201311). God\u2019s character defines what is good, something neither we nor our circumstances can do. Our viewpoint will always be limited as to what is good, but God\u2019s never is. The effects of sin in the world never compromise God\u2019s goodness either\u2014when life feels like it\u2019s all bad, God is still entirely good.<\/p>
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He does good because He is good. In all ways and in all things, God is good.<\/p>","share_image_height":"640","day_number":"12","scripture":"Exodus 33:17-23, 1 Chronicles 16:34-36, Psalm 119:68, John 10:1-18, John 10:25-39, Matthew 7:7-11, 2 Peter 1:3-4","available":true,"ad_banner_name":"","ad_banner_image":false,"ad_banner_url":"","songs":"","key_verse":"","key_verse_reference":"","background_image":false,"background_color":"#FBF7F3","scripture_references":false,"share_image":false,"author_name":"","author_bio":"","guest_social_media":false,"show_ad":true,"ad_override":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}