The Goodness of God

The goodness of God comes in many ways

He showers it upon us each and every day,

It’s every morning when we open our eyes

It’s visible on the land, in the sea and the skies.

It’s in ways we know but don’t understand

It forms part of the original Divine Plan,

It’s in benefits seen and assistance unseen

It comes in His bounty, not reserved or lean.

One look at creation and there you will see

The goodness of God to you and to me,

Behold the beauty of nature in splendor

All pointing to the goodness of its Creator.

View the same in the Garden of Eden

A habitat prepared for man at Creation,

Lost but reclaimed at the coming of Jesus

In another Garden where he resolved to save us.

It was the goodness of God that held him

On a cruel cross while dying for our sin,

Not the rusted nails as some perceived

Nor the shouts of the Jews that didn’t believe.

“Crucify him, crucify him!” they shouted then

To them he was their foe, not their friend,

But notwithstanding their ignorant chant

It was God’s goodness and not their rant.

From heaven he came ’twas the goodness of God

Took my sin and shame ’twas the goodness of God

Died in my stead ’twas the goodness of God

For me his blood was shed ’twas the goodness of God.  

It was the goodness of God that held him there

It was the goodness of God though they didn’t care

It was the goodness of God to forgive their wrong

It was the goodness of God not that misguided throng.

Today I rejoice in the goodness of God

That I made a choice for the goodness of God

And now I recline on the goodness of God

Salvation is mine since the goodness of God.

  

The goodness of God leads to repentance

The goodness of God revokes death’s sentence,

The goodness of God ensures our inheritance

Of life everlasting and sin’s remittance.

Stewart Russell © 2017