The Lord is good, a strong refuge when trouble comes. He is close to those who trust in him.
Nahum 1:7 NLT
What does it means for God to be good? It means in him, there is nothing deceptive, misleading, evil, or impure. All of God’s motives are honest, loving, grace-filled, and kind. In him, we can trust and find a place of security, rest and peace. As we place all of all reliance on him, he is pleased and he responds in sympathy, mercy, provision, and blessing. A saint is not one who has achieved great spiritual heights, but one who trusts in the simple goodness of God even in the darkest of nights.
That God is good is taught and implied on every page of the Bible and must be received as an article of faith as impregnable as the throne of God. It is a foundation stone for all sound thought about God and is necessary to moral sanity.
A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (New York: Harper & Row, 1961), 88.
The saint is not one who tries hard to be good, but one who surrenders to [God’s] Goodness.
E. Stanley Jones, In Christ (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1980)