Everything God made was good

Read Genesis 1:31

Everything God made was good, after each day he says it is good, and after he has completed his work, he says it is very good. It wasn’t good because God aspired to make it good, it was good by virtue of being made by God. God is the definition of goodness, therefore anything he does is good without exemption.

It may seem like only the first two chapters of the Bible are good, then all the bad things start happening, does this means God isn’t in control that these bad things happen without his say so? Why did God place the tree in the garden knowing the evil that would come of it?

This is where faith comes in God is not just good in the obvious things, but in the most difficult to understand things. He doesn’t just do good, he can even bring good out of evil. Though things may come by way of the evil hands of men, that do not come unless God first allows them too.

It is the testimony of Joseph.

“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” – Genesis 50:20

So too it is the testimony of Jesus

“This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.” – Acts 2:23

Though things may come our way by the hands of evil men or by means of a sinful, broken world, that does not mean they do not come from God, and it does not mean there is no good in them.

The God brought out the greatest good from the most wicked evil humanity has ever devised. The murder of God’s son, Jesus. Everything that has ever happened to you, is happening to you, and will ever happen to you comes from the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, no matter by what means it comes.

Questions

What are some reasons why you might struggle to believe everything God does or allow you to go through is good?

Looking back on experiences in your life, where can you now see the good that God brought out of a bad/difficult situation?