Whether a person lives or dies, contracts a sickness or is healthy, is healed from cancer or dies from cancer, is wealthy or poor, the Bible teaches that God is good all the time. “So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God” (Mark 10:18). God’s goodness is not determined by our temporal condition or possessions, rather God is essentially good. We have the tendency to say, “God is good” only when a loved one is healed or when good things happen to us, and, yes, we ought to praise God for these things. But if our loved one dies, or we contract cancer is God no longer good? We must learn from Scripture that God is always good whether our loved ones live or die. “Praise the LORD! Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever” (Psalm 106:1).
The duty of every believer is to praise God and declare His goodness even when evil comes upon us because God is always good. “The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD. In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong” (Job 1:21-22). And every believer has the precious promise that all things are working together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28).
Be careful, dear ones, of thinking and saying that God is only good when good things and good times happen in our lives because the Bible teaches that God is always and essentially good, even when He sends evil upon us in this troubled life. “Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are pure in heart” (Psalm 73:1). “Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, [because God is good] but he who does evil has not seen God” (3 John vs. 11). Let the redeemed of the Lord say, God is good all the time!
Friday Devotional: March 27, 2026
In Christ,
Pastor S. Henry
