Why "God is good" isn't good enough
Last night I was talking with a friend about the goodness of God. These days, it's almost cliché to say, "God is good." Declaring God's goodness is powerful, if we mean it. But sometimes we're just going through the motions of a worship song or making it a tag line after listing all the things that are wrong ("...and I got cut short a shift this week so I don't know how I'm supposed to pay the bills and eggs are costing so much these days I don't even know how we're going to eat and my knees are hurting again and I'll probably have to have surgery, but God's good, so...). It makes him sound like a monster. No, seriously - if our friend talked this way about a boyfriend or girlfriend, we'd tell them to run: "Yeah, we get along great. I mean, sometimes he smacks me around and makes me sick, and still expects me to love him, but it's ok. He's really a good guy." "You know, sometimes she takes my money, but...