God Is Good!

God is so good. It may be hard to always see that but He is always good.

I know how it feels to not feel like God is good. It’s easy to say that God isn’t good when there are hardships going on. I know that for a fact.

When I am struggling with my depression, sometimes it is hard to see the good in the bad. Actually sometimes it’s extremely hard. I know there are times that I get upset because I feel like what I am going through is too much. It feels like I will never get through. It feels like this is it, it’s the end because how could I possibly keeping going with how tough it’s been.

When I was in middle school, I got bullied a lot. Whether it was from the way I talked or the way my tics were, it was hard. I remember getting so upset with God. I had learned that He was good and that He loved us. But if He truly loved us, why was I going through this. I got really made and sometimes I would yell at God.

“This wasn’t good. How can you be good if I’m going through this. It doesn’t feel good. You can’t be good if you are letting me go through this. How could you let me go through this.” These are some of the constant thoughts I got or would scream in my head.

I couldn’t understand. I was learning about a God who was loving and good. One who was there for us through trials. One who celebrated the good. What I was going through wasn’t good. I didn’t believe that if He was real, that He would put me through this crummy stuff.

Now I know that He is so good. Its sometimes hard to see this because of the trials. Sometimes it was so hard and I didn’t want to believe that this was really happening. Some of the really hard times, I couldn’t believe that God would really let me go through this if He was good.

But He is good. I know this because He has shown how good He truly is. The joy that you get from the Lord is enough to show you that He is real and He is good. The goodness He can give you in life is incredible. He can make you go from battling severe depression to feeling like a normal person overnight. He can give you joy and peace.

In Daniel, it talks about how Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego was going to be thrown into a fiery furnace. I don’t know about you but I would be very scared if that was my fate. This was because they told the king they were not going to bow down and worship his statue that was put up. They said that even if God does not rescue them, they would not worship the king. Here’s the thing, I want to have faith like that. I want enough faith to say I don’t care what you say or do to me, but my God is the only God that I will bow down and worship.

They were thrown into the furnace and tied up. The furnace was so hot that it killed the men that were putting the three into the furnace. Now king Nebuchadnezzar looked into the furnace. He did not just see that they were untied, he saw four people. Four! Not just Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego, but another one who looked like a son of a God.

This story just shows how good God is. He didn’t let the die or burn. They came out unharmed. They were perfectly fine inside and once outside the furnace.

God does the same for us. In our troubled times, we have the Son of God there walking with us. We have God at the tip of our tongue when we call out to Him.

We are going to go through trials in our life. It’s inevitable. It really is. We all are going to go through some crummy stuff in our life. But that does not mean that God is not good. He is there walking with us through our trials. If we didn’t go through trials, why would we lean into God. The trials are there to grow us. We are not forsaken in them. No, we are not forgotten. Sometimes it feels like that but we aren’t. God is so good that He will never leave or forsake us. Never in a million years would He. He left the 99 for you and me. He is good.

Madison <3