he is good.

"you are good, you are good
when there's nothing good in me"
(hillsong)


Music is my life, pretty much. So, I've decided to write some posts and expand on lyrics that I love.

Above is the beginning of the song "Forever Reign" by Hillsong. It's been on repeat for weeks now. I think I'm going to parse out the lyrics over the next few days.

As I get older, I'm realizing the extremely little amount of good that's inside of me. God is always perfect and good, even when I am SO blatantly not. I am realizing how sinful I am. But I'm also realizing that within that sin, God finds his victory.

I am flawed. Evil. A murderer of dreams. Impatient. Ugly. Harsh. Lonely. Lazy. Selfish. So, so, so selfish.

And the world is sad. There are more homeless people than my brain can begin to fathom. There are deformed babies. Cancer. Earthquakes. Abuse. Addicts. Prisoners who need to be set free.

Yet even in all of that, God is good.

Wait - what?

Sometimes (most of the time), this truth doesn't make sense. Not even CLOSE! But God doesn't promise to make sense. He promises healing, peace, comfort, grace, and insane, unending love (among many other things) - but never that everything will make perfect sense. I am so glad of this. If I could understand everything about God, well, he wouldn't be God.

So no matter the circumstances, HE. IS. GOOD.

"taste and see that the Lord is good" (psalm 34:8)
"give thanks to the Lord, for he is good" (psalm 136:1)
"how much more will your heavenly Father give good things?" (matthew 7:11)
"in all things God works for the good" (romans 8:28)
"God saw that it was good" (genesis 1, all the way through)