God is good. All the time. And all the time? God is good. Now that sounds kind of trite and silly. But it's true. If God were really totally good He would want the people He created to be happy and have easy care free lives. If God were really powerful He could make what He wants to be reality. But we are rarely truly happy and life is almost never easy and care free. Therefore God is either not good or weak or both.
Wrong. He just has His hands tied. You like being free? Americans have been awfully proud of that "Give me liberty or give me death" quote and the "Don't Tread On Me" flag gets brought out whenever we see people mad at the idea of the government stepping on or taking away our liberties and rights. We hate it when someone tries to take our freedom and rights away. So how can we even pretend that we could love the idea of a God that would make us puppets with no choice. But He didn't do that. He gave us free will. He gave us the choice to love Him and serve Him or not. That means some will choose not to and at times all of us will. When we do we bring pain into the world and our lives, because to fail to serve and love Him is to fail to fulfill the purpose that we were created for. And failing at our purpose can't produce anything other than misery and pain.
Then when we all screwed it up and sided with the enemy He came, took on flesh and died so that we could have life and be reconciled (made right) with Him. He has born our failures and our punishment. He jumped on the grenade we pulled the pin on so that we could live. That's a good God. He uses His power to take everything that the enemy, everything people do to try to use or hurt us and everything we have done wrong and make into something that can be used for good. It was His creative mind after all who managed to make it so that manure could be used as fertilizer to make food grow. He knows how to take our crap and use it to make life grow, and He longs to do just that if we will let Him. That's pretty good. That's more than good. That's heroic and awesome.
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