I have had people in my life who say, God is good. when something good has happened.
If it was sunshining on their Saturday, God is good.
Or if they got a job they wanted, God is good.
They never said God was good when something bad happened.
That wasn’t their style, neither is it the style of most in the Western World.
God is always good, even when bad things happen.
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh.
What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
In all this did not Job sin with his lips. Job 2:9-10
The Christians I knew who said God is good only when good things happened
did not curse God per se, but they did not accept that suffering is also from the hand of God.
Jesus was baptized into suffering.
In order to know Him, we are to fellowship with His sufferings, which is huge in its meaning.
Some parts of those thoughts, we can understand
and others we will learn as we suffer and increase in our knowledge of Jesus by His Holy Spirit.
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings,
being made conformable unto His death;
If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after,
if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:10-12
As we go forward and learn more of Him and His likeness, we attain righteousness and true holiness.
This world is filled with beauty and ashes.
We have both and we will experience both while we dwell on Earth.
Jesus has all things we have given Him in His hands.
If you’ve ever cut roses from the garden, you know they have thorns. that is to protect them.
The thorns can be broken and not puncture, or they can and do puncture hands, even if you’re careful
and try not to let it happen. Somehow it always does.
While we walk through this world, some bad things are bound to happen.
Let it never be said that God does not favor those who suffer.
He seems to greatly favor those who do.
It’s all hard to understand, to come to terms with.
Sometimes we see the reason and other times not.
Not everything that happens means something.
Some things happen in this world and are just part of living in the wretched world we live in.
God is always good, no matter what happens.