Satan wants you to DOUBT GOD’S GOODNESS as we see in Gen. 3:1b “‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
What Satan wants is for us to DOUBT GOD.
We doubt God when we doubt His Goodness. Satan wants us to believe is that God is trying to hold out on us, He is robbing us of some good times, He is out of touch with our needs, He missed that disaster we just went through, He messed up on how He made us, He means well but doesn’t quite have everything under control.
This is a direct attack on the character of God. One of the great truths about our God is the moral attribute of God we know as His GOODNESS. Let me define that for you.
"The goodness of God means that God is the final standard of good, and all that God is and does is worthy of approval."
Psalm 34:8 O taste and see that the Lord is good; how blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
Psalm 84:11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
Psalm 119:68 Thou art good and doest good; teach me Thy statutes.
Matthew 7:11 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!
Romans 8:28 and we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
1 Thessalonians 5:18 in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 12:10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.
James 1:17 every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, or shifting shadow.
Thus in theological terms, we can say: God’s mercy is His goodness toward those in distress; God’s grace is His goodness toward those who deserve only punishment, and God’s patience is His goodness toward those who continue to sin over a period of time.
So we all have an Adam solidarity.
We all are in the same boat.
John Donne, a great poetic mind and a Biblical mind, spoke of our solidarity this way:
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod is washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
Our Response?
Appreciate the goodness of God.
Count your blessings.
Learn not to take natural benefits, endowments, and pleasures for granted; learn to thank God for them all.
Do not slight the Bible, or the gospel of Jesus Christ, by an attitude of casualness toward either. The Bible shows you a Savior who suffered and died in order that we sinners might be reconciled to God; Calvary is the measure of the goodness of God; lay it to heart. Ask yourself the psalmist’s question—“How can I repay the LORD for all his goodness to me?” Seek grace to give his answer—“I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD. . . . O LORD, truly I am your servant; . . . I will fulfill my vows to the LORD” (Ps 116:12–18).
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