THE GOOD GOD

The ministry of Jesus and His life on earth demonstrate that God is a good God. For Jesus Christ is the real definition of God. Knowing Jesus is knowing God. Actually, God is truly known only in Jesus Christ. Outside Jesus, you only know an unknown God.

While on earth, He (Jesus) was always and only found doing good, nothing more (Acts 10:38). Teaching goodness, healing the sick, raising the dead, and casting out devil were His business. That's who God is. God doesn't kill, He gives life, even in abundance. He doesn't destroy, He repairs and builds. He doesn't inflict pain and infirmities, He heals. He doesn't take from man, He rather gives to man. Anything bad and evil isn't of God and isn't from Him. 

In case you have read or heard anything bad or evil of God, run to Jesus, read and study about Him. He is the right interpretation of God. Don't let what you read in the old testament writings or what ignorant people say misinterpret God to you. If you've not known Jesus, you've not known God vis-à-vis. Let's read what Jesus said👇

John 14:7 (NKJV)

“If you had KNOWN ME [JESUS], you would have known MY FATHER [GOD] also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”

You see? What you know about Jesus is who God is. You normally hear ignorant believers saying God brings sickness, poverty, misfortune and the like troubles upon them to test their faith to elevate them. I wonder if these believers even read their bible. Why will a loving God do that? Even evil men know how to give good things to their children, imagine how much more good things the loving Father (God) will give. What was James' take on this? Let's carefully read👇

James 1:13, 14, 17 (NKJV)

13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. 

14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.

17 Every GOOD GIFT and every PERFECT GIFT is from above, and comes down from the FATHER OF LIGHTS, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

Why would James say that? Because that is who God is. HE CANNOT be tempted by Evil. The New Living Translation (NLT) even puts it this way, 'God is NEVER tempted to do wrong, and He NEVER tempts anyone else'. Obviously, God is the source of good and perfect things only. He doesn't want evil near man. The evil we see around us is powered by the devil through our own choices.

Beloved, as you seek to know God, it's very significant not to misinterpret God through careless study. You must be like the Bereans in searching scriptures (Acts 17:10-11). Don't just swallow anything evil you read about God just because someone said it in the Bible. He is a Good God. He is light, and in Him, there is NO DARKNESS at all (1 John 1:5).

Stay blessed!

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