The LORD is good to all; He has compassion on all He has made
- alanhowes69
- Jun 25
- 4 min read
The LORD is good to all; He has compassion on all He has made. Psalm 145:9
This scripture about God can be very difficult for some to comprehend. Many might reject God because of personal tragedy or trauma they see in the world and at times it can seem that God is anything
but good and compassionate. For some He is just down right bad.
For those who have just lost a child to cancer or those who are suffering with ill health or those who have mental health issues like PTSD, the concept of the Lord being good to all can be extremely difficult to grasp.
We could ask that same question about our own situation. How has God been good to us when a lot of the time it has felt anything but good. We share some of the highs and lows of our experience over the past three years on our website. Here are a couple of blogs, both relate to the subject here.
In spite of what any of us experience in life, the good the bad and the downright ugly, scripture declares that the Lord is good to ALL. So let’s try and examine that a little more.
Notice this scripture refers to ALL and leaves no one out. The Lord is good to ALL. So whether you’re an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu, or even a Satanist, God is good to you. Whether you’re seemingly doing well in life or whether you’re struggling, longing for things to be different, God is good to you.
How is God good to all?
1. God gives every human being the gift of life
2. God gives everyone the opportunity to know Him in Christ
3. God is seeking you today
Let’s look at these each in turn…
1. God gives every human being the gift of life
He is the very source of life itself. No-one is an accident. We are all on this planet by God’s design and purpose.
David says, “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb” Psalm 139:13
He says to Jeremiah “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you”. Jer 1:5.
Just knowing that we are here by God’s design would help so many people who hate their lives, who have no self esteem, who have no purpose in life. You are not an accident. God made you and He has a plan for you in this life. This is why God is good to all.
Some people wish they were never born. God is glad you were born and is the very source of your life.
2. God gives everyone the opportunity to know Him in Christ
God hasn’t just created us but has created us so that we can know Him personally. No matter what you background, your education, your current religion, He desires you to know Him.
Because of this the Bible says that God is so many things. He is longsuffering, He is kind to all, He is forgiving to all, He is merciful to all, He is compassionate to all etc. This is why God is good. He withholds none of these things from anyone.
The life, death and resurrection of Jesus was for everyone. All peoples. Not just the Jews although it was to the Jew first, but goes on to include Gentiles from every part of the world.
He is good to all because He doesn’t want anyone to finish this life without knowing Him. He desires each one of us to come and experience true life that only comes through knowing Him.
3. God is seeking you today, no matter what
No matter where you are, what you’ve done, how good or bad you think you are, how successful, how down you are on yourself. God is the great lover. He desires relationship. If you are a buddhist God loves you and is seeking you. If you are a muslim the same holds true. No matter what your religion or no religion God is seeking you. He is that good.
He said Himself that He had come to seek and to save that which was lost, Luke 19:10. He seeks in order to save, to repair, to restore, to conform each of us back into the image of God. The image has been marred. Christ has done the work through His life, death and resurrection in order for the image of God to be fully restored.
He’s the shepherd that will go and look for the one that has gone astray. If you’re suffering, God is seeking you through that suffering. It would be so easy to allow that suffering to distance you from God. I speak from experience that God draws near in those times of darkness, desperation and despair. He doesn’t stop seeking when we’ve got nothing to give. On the contrary He seeks us even more, if that be possible.
Conclusion
We will all have hard things to deal with in this life. We all will suffer to some degree, some more than others. However, God remains the same today as He’s always been. Know His goodness today, know His compassion today. As I’ve clung onto God these last three years, I’m realising more and more God loves me deeply and is good to me and wants me to experience that each and every day.
Prayer
Dear Lord, Thank You that You are indeed good to all and have compassion on all that You have made. May we, who know You, continue to know that goodness as You uphold us each and every single day. For those who don’t know You, help us to show love and kindness and compassion as Your representatives, so that they may come. Amen
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