God is good!

(Romans 3:11-12) “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”

The Goodness of God who can fathom it? A rhetorical question and the answer lies deep within His majestic beauty, no one knows, no one understands. However, millions of people throughout the ages, has, at times, caught a marvellous glimpse of HIS GOODNESS. God is good! We don’t understand what it means to be good. We all have our perceived ideas of what “good” looks like, but in comparison to what is truly good, we are clueless. “No one does good, not even one.”  We are worthless regarding our aptitude to please God. This is a hard pill to swallow as it strips us to our core, which reminds us that we are sinners and in desperate need of a Saviour. I understand that the Apostle Paul is referring to individuals under the law and those who use the law to find justification for their lives, accusing other whilst excusing themselves. At times, even the Christian lives here, it is a default action that we need to weed out of our lives if we are to please our heavenly Father.

 

We have been saved apart from the law, the law of God could never save us or any who lived before us. All it did was condemn us, so, to live as if we can find justification for our lives in and through the law of God, is madness. Deception of the highest order at play in people's lives. A simple breach of any one of God’s laws and you are guilty, you will be indicted as a lawbreaker and the punishment of that charge is death. Not of the flesh, we have all broken God’s law along life journey and we still breathe the oxygen He has afforded us. This reference speaks about our eternal deaths. An eternal life without God as our ally and yet a never-ending life of pain and suffering. The Lake of Fire will be the law breakers eternal home. Who wants to end up there, it is a place prepare by God for the devil and his angels and Satan is looking to take as many human victims with him as he can. Why? His defiance toward God.

 

The first reflex retort is, “how can a GOOD God sent people to hell?” I assure you millions will end up there, the Bible is clear on this. The only real question we need to ask ourselves, will we be amongst that number? God has already concluded all under the curse of sin, law breakers and there is no exceptions apart from the God man Jesus Christ, He alone conquered death, a man who live in a flesh and blood body but never breached a single law of God. Thus only qualifying Him  to pay the penalty for mankind’s sin. So, unless we find forgiveness for our sins we will be herded into the cell of the lawbreakers and be judged accordingly; “For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.” (Ecclesiastes 12:14)  

 

Is this a thought fearful enough to drive us to our knees, crying out to Jesus and probing Him to save us from such a terrible destiny? Where does true wisdom begin? It’s not in education, degrees or diplomas; “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.” (Proverbs 9:10) – Wisdom rests on the degree of our fear for the Lord. Do you believe this? Or is that just a thought that you easily sweep to the side as if that will have no actual bearing on your life. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is foolishness to the Gentile and to the Jew a stumbling block. This is an overview of the world’s perception, but where do you fit in? Personally what do you believe?

 

If God is going to send so many to hell, why is He good? God is a righteous God, it’s who He is and he hates sin and loves all that is pure. It is impossible for Him to entertain any form of darkness. It is beyond Him, not to say that He never looked upon the human race with compassion, HE DID! In fact He was so move by our predicament that he sent His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ to earth, to live a life as a man and then die a death he didn’t deserves. Why? So that we could find forgiveness for our sins in and through His finished work. If that isn’t the greatness act of kindness, then I don’t know what it will take to echo a response, “that God is good!”

 

He sent his son to die for sinners and the Apostle Paul puts it like this; “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6-8) – If this reality doesn’t blow your mind, nothing of any eternal benefit ever will. GOD IS GOOD! We, the converted sinner, who through repentance has called on the name of Jesus and been saved from a devastating fate, now has the ability to please God, wow! However without this act of attrition from God it remains an impossible phenomena to please God and every effort will come up short.

 

I will leave you with encouragement and know this if you are reading this I have prayed for you; “For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”” (Romans 10:13)  

 

Signing off

 

Tyrone