A.W. Tozer states the following concerning the goodness of God. “The fellowship of God is delightful beyond all telling. He communes with His redeemed ones in an easy, uninhibited fellowship that is restful and healing to the soul. He is not sensitive nor selfish nor temperamental. What He is today we shall find Him tomorrow and the next day and the next year. He is not hard to please, though He may be hard to satisfy. He expects of us only what He has Himself first supplied. He is quick to mark every simple effort to please Him, and just as quick to overlook imperfections when He knows we meant to do His will. He loves us for ourselves and values our love more than galaxies of new created worlds.”¹ God is a good God, that’s a Bible fact. How confident are you in this? Are you secure in knowing that all of His dealings with you are fair, true and good?

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God Is A Good God

Psalm 118:1 (KJV) — 1 O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: Because his mercy endureth for ever.

• Oral Roberts echoed these words in his heyday and believe it or not was criticized for it.
• Why would anyone doubt God’s goodness.
• The thought of God’s goodness coupled with His mercy is echoed a dozen times in scripture.
  • See 1 Chronicles 16:34; 2 Chronicles 5:13, 7:3; Ezra 3:11; Psalms 86:5, 100:5, 106:1, 107:1, 118:1,29, 136:1 and Jeremiah 33:11.
• God is good and you can put your confidence in that.

Confidence in God’s Goodness

• The Bible word ‘confidence‘ is mentioned forty eight times in scripture and is closely connected to trust.
• The question must be asked who is your confidence in?
• Who do you trust?
• Who do you lean on in your everyday life?
• Proverbs 3:26 states that our confidence should be in the Lord.

Proverbs 3:26 (KJV) — 26 For the Lord shall be thy confidence, And shall keep thy foot from being taken.

• What does a confident person look like, though, and how can we develop confidence in God’s goodness?

Confidence in God’s Goodness Through Abiding

1 John 2:28 (KJV) 28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

• Confidence is spiritual.
• It comes from abiding in Him.
• The Hebrew word ‘confidence’ has in it the idea of being free and fearless confidence, cheerful courage, boldness, assurance.²
• Confidence denotes trust in something or someone.
• It involves a high degree of certainty and faith, often in a person, to act in accordance with our expectations or hopes.
• We can have confidence in God’s goodness towards us and in our standing with Him.
• A confident person is a person that is or who has…
  • Free
  • Courage
  • Boldness
  • Expectant
  • Conviction
  • Trust and faith

What is the Opposite of Confidence?

•  A person who lacks confidence in God’s goodness exhibits the following traits.
  • inferiority
  • intimidated
  • paralysis
  • fearful
  • timidity
  • insecurity
• Where are you at?

What a Confident Outlook in God’s Goodness Has Nothing to Do with

• Confidence in God’s goodness towards me has nothing to do with…
  • My bank account size
  • Popularity
  • Personal beauty
• Some think if I can have these things in abundance, it will lead to a confident life.
• It’s simply not true.
• Many rich, many popular, and beautiful people are overcome by hopelessness and commit suicide all the time.
• Hopelessness is the opposite of confidence.
• There are many hopeless people on planet earth.
• People that don’t think that they can.
• People who have no confidence in tomorrow.

Developing Confidence: Know that God Is A Good God

• You can’t blame God.
• It’s never a successful strategy.
• This sounds simplistic but there are people who blame God for all the bad things they experience in life.
• They think that God is against them or that God is somehow responsible for their hurt.
• God is never your problem.
• He is always your answer.
• People blame God for many things.
• They blame Him most commonly for the death of loved ones.
  • Martha herself did this at the tomb of Lazarus in  John 11:21

John 11:21 (NKJV) — 21 Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

• God also gets the blame for sicknesses, lost opportunities, and unanswered prayers.
• God is not the author of bad things.
• It’s hard for you to have confidence in your tomorrow if you think, when you wake up in the morning, that God is against you.
• That He is going to cause bad things to happen to you.
• The truth is God is trying desperately to get good things to come your way and to keep bad stuff from happening to you.
• Years ago, a British train, who was carrying Queen Victoria, was speeding into the darkness of night.
  • Suddenly the engineer saw a startling sight.
  • On the tracks he thought he saw, in his headlight, a weird figure in a black cloak waving his arms.
  • The engineer grabbed for the brakes and the train came to a screeching halt.
  • When they got out to take a look they could not find the man that waved his hands.
  • What they did find to their horror was that a few yards away from where they were there was a bridge that had washed out.
  • Had they not have stopped when they stopped they would all have been killed.
  • They looked for the man that they had flagged them down and could not find him.
  • What they did find was a huge moth laying dead on the tracks.
  • What the moth had done was get into the headlights of the train.
  • It looked like a man flagging down the train.
• Now ask yourself the question, who sent that moth at the precise time to keep that train from going over the bridge?
• We have to get the job descriptions straight.
• Good things come from a good God and bad things come from a bad devil.

James 1:17 (NLT) 17 Whatever is good and perfect comes to us from God…

• If it’s not good, it’s not God, period.
• Confidence in God’s goodness comes from knowing that God loves you, that God accepts you, and that God approves of you.

Biblical Confidence in God’s Goodness Stated Three Ways

God Is for Us

Romans 8:31 (AMP) 31 What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be our foe, if God is on our side?]

God Is In Us

2 Corinthians 6:16 (AMP) 16 What agreement [can there be between] a temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them and will walk in and with and among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

God Is with Us

Matthew 1:23 (KJV) 23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

• You are never alone.
• God is with you, in you and for you.
• You can have confidence in that.

Call to Action:

If you were to present this case legally, in a court of law, what you have is an overwhelming plethora of information for the case of having confidence in God’s goodness. What about just agreeing with that today? Align yourself with and rejoice in the truth of God’s goodness in your everyday life.

Question: Please share an experience you had that pointed to the goodness of God in your everyday life. Please share your testimony in the comments section below.

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