Here's an interesting follow-up to what we talked about yesterday, a listener writes and

asks this, Pastor John, my beautiful girlfriend is questioning God's goodness.

She is a religion major and understands that God can do whatever he wants and that goodness

to him is whatever he wants it to be, just like how we saw it was good to see his son

on the cross or good to have Stephen killed.

She lives in constant fear that God will have her injured or disabled and count it as good.

I don't know what to say, but I thought you could help me.

She is certainly not irrational to tremble at the absolute sovereignty of God over her life.

It is true as she says that God can do whatever he wants.

Indeed, he does do whatever he wants, Psalm 115, verse 3, our God is in the heavens.

He does all that he pleases.

The person who does not tremble at this has simply not faced up to the power of God greater

than a billion hydrogen bombs or the holiness of God, a purity burning like a million galaxies

or the mystery of God, acting in ways that none but he can fathom.

She is not irrational to tremble before such a God.

She would be crazy if she didn't.

Maybe one fruitful place to start would be with her statement, the goodness to God is whatever

he wants it to be.

Now I know this is coming through her boyfriend and may not be precisely what she thinks, but

then again, maybe it is.

But I hear in those words the goodness, what is goodness to God is whatever he wants it

to be.

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