The Goodness of God

The Goodness of God Discovering the TRUE nature of God as revealed only in Jesus Christ. Jesus is the key. God is good. Only good. Always good. God didn't create evil. He won't use it.

As God in the flesh, He revealed the character, nature and power of His Father. He doesn't allow it. No exceptions. No qualifications. No loopholes. It is a truth, perhaps the ultimate truth, that Jesus came to reveal -- God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. This is a truth too good not to be true.

06/07/2026

"There is another world, but it is in this one."
---- William Butler Yeats

06/06/2026

Puny views of God lead to punitive theology.

Pun intended.

06/05/2026

What I have read about God, particularly in Scripture, has blessed and complemented my relationship with God beyond measure.

However, my CORE (and I do mean deep, deep, deep, core) belief about God's nature does NOT come from what I have read about Him.

Rather, what I believe about God's character comes from what I have spiritually apprehended, personally observed, and directly experienced both FROM and THROUGH Him.

His incredible tenderness and relentless goodwill he has shown toward me has revealed more to me about Him than a million books from a thousand libraries.

I have seen a vicious murderer I represented in court transformed into a loving lamb. And in so doing he named a name.

I have seen emaciated drug addicts become fat in God's goodness. And they named a name.

I have seen hard and hateful criminal hearts changed into soft and absorbent sponges of healing. And they named a name.

I have seen abusive parents transformed into the tenderest of shepherds. And they named a name.

I have seen, both in observing them in others and experiencing them myself, dozens upon dozens of healings from mental, physical, and emotional oppressions. And we all named a name.

And this name has a nature. That name is Jesus. For the Hebrew, a person’s "name" represented their "nature." Jesus was the revelation of God's nature. And that nature has no darkness, no malice and no hostile intent. It has only love, light and lightness.

And this is something the early church fathers knew. They knew the restorative nature of God at their core. And this core knowledge of Himself what then allowed them to properly read Scripture non-violently, because they ALREADY had been touched by the tender nature of God.

And they named a name.

This why we must let the living nature of God interpret Scripture RATHER than allowing the dead letter of Scripture to define God's nature. “This is the message we have heard from Him [Jesus] and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” - 1 John 1:5.

06/05/2026

What does it mean that God’s ways are higher than our ways?

Here is the biggest way.

God’s chastening is curative.
God’s wrath is restorative.
God’s judgment is rehabilitative.
God’s vengeance rescues His enemies.

Our ways in these areas are lower—much lower.

So, we need to “look up,” “believe up,” and “trade up” for His higher ways. However, our spiritual eyesight often is not initially strong enough to see Abba’s height-of-being in this area.

But, Jesus’ vision IS strong enough.

And He was gifted us His spiritual vision through His indwelling Spirit. To access it, we just need to rub His spiritual salve on our own eyes.

In a vengeful world, to believe this takes courage. So let’s be brave. It’s time to open our eyes and look up to Zion’s hills and Zion’s ways.

We will have to persevere through the rapid blinking stage while we get accustomed to His flawless light. We are simply not used to thinking and looking at God in this visionary way.

But, once our vision becomes acclimated to His brilliant goodness, then we can become valiant visioneers of His healing love.

06/04/2026

To angrily and disgustingly tell people that God is not angry or disgusted with them sorta misses the point.

Yes, not shooting the messenger is good.

But it’s just as important for the messenger to NOT shoot the listener.

Moses couldn’t enter the Promised Land because he misrepresented the nature of God to the people by making them think God was disgusted with them when God wasn’t.

Moses angrily struck the rock with his own rod of disgust rather than tenderly speaking to the rock as instructed by the Lord.

Let’s keep true to the tender Jesus-tone.

06/03/2026

Charles Spurgeon once said that for every ten people willing to die for the Bible, there is only one who will actually read it.

I feel the same way when it comes to literalism. For every Ten Bible fundamentalists who will die to preserve a "flat-text," "dead-letter" reading of the Old Testament, there is only one who has actually read it, or at least all of it.

Karl Barth once said he loved the Old Testament far too much to read it just literally. So should we.

If not, then our beloved Abba is maligned as plague-slinging, throat-cutting, infant-bashing, child-burning, woman-raping, disaster-binging, and world-flooding killer of men, women, children, and fetuses.

And where, in Jesus' name, is the love in that?

05/30/2026

The dam of damnation is cracking.

The waters of God's divine energies are continually rising and crashing against this wall of fear which seeks to block our recognition of the divine nature.

Many are seeing the cracks lengthen and widen. Like the walls of Jericho, our awe-filled worship around the right image of the Father of lights will bring the walls of ignorance down.

And everyone and their neighbor will know God.

All captivity will be taken captivity.

And damnation will be damned.

05/29/2026

Jesus Christ is “the wrath of God” which Paul says will be “revealed from heaven.”

Ooops.

Do we really want to apply our angry juices to THAT lame, tame, and lamb imagery?

Revelation 6:16 calls it "the wrath of the Lamb."

Jesus is “the Lamb of God.”

So Jesus, by extension, is the wrath of God personified.

But here is the thing.

Lambs have no wrath.

So the term is an oxymoron. It’s an image clash where wrath itself is deconstructed by the jarring contradiction of two incompatible terms.

This clash then allows divine wrath to be conceptually recast as the restorative and curative energies of God.

Hence the Lamb.

So let's look at both God's birth statement and death statement regarding Jesus as the revelation of "the wrath of God."

Here is the divine wrath statement given by angelic pronouncement at His birth-- "peace on earth, goodwill to man." Luke 2:14. Hmmm.

And here is His bookend statement on the issue of wrath at His death. "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do." Luke 23:34.

Hmmm. Such fierce wrath…… NOT!

The wrath of the lamb is now revealed. Peace, goodwill, and forgiveness toward ALL, EACH, and EVERY.

"EVERY CREATURE which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, forever and ever." (Rev. 5:13).

05/28/2026

Jesus saw Satan fall like lightning from Heaven...

Or, put another way, Jesus saw the attributes of Satan drop away from our heavenly image of God.

Address

200A West Gordon Street
Dalton, GA
30720

Telephone

+17062723289

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when The Goodness of God posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Place Of Worship

Send a message to The Goodness of God:

Shortcuts

Share

Category