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Maybe you’ve heard this popular phrase at church or in Christian circles: “God is good, all the time. All the time, God is good.” It’s easy to say and easy to remember, but that truth can be difficult to feel. This song is a reminder that no matter what you’ve done and no matter what may come your way, God is good and in His never-ending goodness, He will not give up on you.
“This freedom purchased by the highest price, this grace outweighing all my shame. I’m made new through the power of sacrifice. From death now raised to life again.”
God’s goodness is not a prize to be won or something to earn—it is freely given.
Romans 5:8 NIV says
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
When you feel like you are unworthy of forgiveness, or when everything around you seems lost, remember there is nothing that could separate you from His love and goodness. Even at our worst moment, God sent His Son to die for us so that we would have everlasting life.
So in every season, may we remember this good news: God is good, all the time. All the time, God is good.
Read Romans 5:1-8.
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Read Romans 8:37-39.
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Read 1 Chronicles 16:34.
34 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
Read Psalm 23:1-6.
1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3 he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.
