Most of the times our faith gets challenged or we feel discouraged, it will have something to do with us doubting the goodness of God. Living in the kind of broken and sinful world we live in will cause us to question whether God really is good all the time.
When bad things happen, when our prayers don't get answered or when our expectations our not met, we can often start to question God's goodness. But the truth remains that God is good even when not all the things that happen to us are good things, when the world we live in still remains broken and incomplete because of man's depravity and sin, and when trying and hard times seem to never end.
In all times and in every season God's goodness remains and is more than sufficient for us if we choose to remain in His goodness. Here are six scriptures that we can turn to when we start doubting God's goodness.
James 1:17-18 "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of all he created." (Pixabay)1 Timothy 4:4-5 "For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer." (Pixabay)Psalm 145:15-19 "The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them." (Pixabay)Psalm 31:19 "Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!" (Pixabay)Psalm 23:6 "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever." (Pixabay)Romans 8:28 "And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose." (Pixabay)
