Good God

A man I’d never met before approached me after one of our church services. He was humble yet bold. That’s when I met my now close friend, Kelechi John, an evangelist and Bible teacher from Nigeria. Someone had told him I’d written books and might be able to help with his. I asked him the title.

“Expect Only Good from God.”  That was it. I was all in.

His message cut through the fog that tradition, bad theology, and life’s trauma have draped over our view of God. Wrong thinking about suffering. Wrong conclusions about healing. Wrong expectations from a good, good Father.

Kelechi brought clarity to the goodness of God—and how He demonstrates that goodness to us, His children.  

The Bible says:

“God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.” — Acts 10:38

Healing was called good. The oppression was from the devil.

And if Jesus is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15), and the exact representation of his being (Hebrews 1:3), then God is good—all the time.

Still, so many people struggle with believing in God’s total goodness.

A friend said to me, “My son will be healed… when God’s done using his sickness.” I nearly lost it. I didn’t know whether to cry for them, shout truth at them, or shake the lie out of them. 

As a parent, I warned my children not to touch a hot stove—but I didn’t preheat a burner, grab their hand, and press it onto it to teach them a lesson. That’s not correction; that’s cruelty. That’s not training or discipline; that’s abuse.  

Yet some believers see God that way—as if He causes suffering just to make a point. But that’s not our Father. God doesn’t harm His kids to teach them. He teaches us by His Spirit, His kindness, and His discipline through the Word—not by injury.

Jesus didn’t come to destroy us; he came to destroy the works of the devil. The enemy is the one who kills, steals, and destroys. Some people believe that God hurts us to cause us to repent, but it's not harshness or condemnation that turns hearts; it’s the kindness, patience, and mercy of God.

“Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?” Romans 2:4

Jesus is “the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being.” Hebrews 1:3  Not once in the gospels does Jesus turn someone away who comes to him for healing.

Not once does he say, “Wait,” or “This sickness is doing more good than healing would.” We, not God, can hinder us from receiving His goodness through unbelief and disobedience. The enemy or this fallen world can bring harm. But, God only brings good.

“No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.” — Psalm 84:11

“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” — James 1:17

The Bible says of Israel in the wilderness:

“Yes, again and again they tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.” — Psalm 78:41 NKJV

We can limit the goodness of God through unbelief, disobedience, and wrong thinking.. But we don’t have to. That’s the point. God is good—all the time. And His mercy endures forever.

Let’s meditate on these truths of God’s goodness:

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• God Is Always Good

God doesn’t partner with darkness to produce light. His very nature is goodness, and Jesus embodied that goodness everywhere he went.

“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever.” — Psalm 136:1

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• Healing Is Always Good

The bible calls the healing Jesus did good and called sickness oppression. Every healing was a release from the enemy’s grip. Healing wasn’t delayed for a lesson—it was delivered as mercy.

“Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”— Acts 10:38

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• Jesus Never Said No

There’s not a single story of Jesus denying a request for healing. His heart revealed the will of God. It IS God’s will for us to be healed.

“I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”— Matthew 8:3

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• We Are Designed To Do Good

If Jesus went about doing good, and we are His body, then we too are commissioned to carry goodness into every place we go.

“Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.”— 1 Corinthians 12:27

“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works” Eph 2:10

“Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”— Matthew 5:16

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Let’s expect only God from God, receive the wholeness and healing His goodness brings, and take that goodness to others by doing what Jesus did as He “went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil.”—Acts 10:38