18. Discovering God’s Goodness in Every Season of Life

God is good.

 

This goodness is inherent. It is integral to His nature and character, and it’s something that is consistently described and affirmed throughout scripture. In this episode, we look at some of the passages in the Bible that describe God's goodness, and discuss how we can come to know and trust in God's goodness for ourselves.

 

We talk about the role that faith plays in trusting in God's goodness, and explore some practical ways that we can cultivate trust in God's goodness and love, even when we are facing difficult circumstances or just having an easier time believing satan’s lies than the truth about who God is.

 

Send me a message: lovedandmadeworthy@gmail.com

Join the Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lovedandmadeworthy/?ref=share

Get a Bible Reading Companion: https://amzn.to/3Q37j76

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good New Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Psa 145:9 ESV - The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.

 

Psa 34:8 ESV - Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

 

Jas 1:17 ESV - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

 

Rom 8:38-39 ESV - For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Psa 34:18 ESV - The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

 

Jhn 3:16 ESV - "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

 

Rev 21:4 ESV - He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."

 

Jhn 8:44 ESV - You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

 

2Co 11:14 ESV - And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

 

Rev 12:9 ESV - And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world--he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

 

Col 1:10 ESV - so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;