“Once a religious leader asked Jesus this question: “Good teacher, what should I do to get eternal life?” “Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked him. “Only God is truly good.” Luke 18:18,19 This is a very profound answer and I’ve often thought about what Jesus meant by His answer. I’ve often thought about how good Jesus was and is and yet He didn’t consider Himself good. Why? My Pastor brought it 0ut in a simplistic way. You have good food, clothing, weather and so on and we tend to throw that all in the mix and the word “GOOD” then loses its flavor or meaning. My truck is good but I don’t call it a good truck, I just call it a truck. My wife is definately good and I do tell people that but it’s not because she and I get along good all the time. We have our differences or “intense fellowships” but she is a good woman, wife and woman of God. We’ve taken the words “good, love” or even the names of God and slung them around like they’re common everyday language and making them common and taking away its significance and character. Jesus makes it clear that God is the One that is totally responsible for anything to be good and we can’t sling Him around like a pet rabbit by our loose way of expressing Jesus like as if He is a good piece of apple pie. God is GOOD PERIOD not because of anything that we consider good on the earth but because He loves us so much that He gave His only begotten Son Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. Jesus wasn’t just a good person because He did good things but because He is God. God is good because it’s His nature and not our opinion. When someone asks me if I believe in God? I says, “YES, and HE IS GOOD”. Try it sometimes.. :O)
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