God is a good God, but unless we see Him as that, our view of His plans and desires for us will always be coloured by fear. Ask yourself, can you fully trust God that what He plans to do to you is always good?
Belief determines perception
What we believe about God colours our perceptions of Him. If we see Him as good, we will trust that He will always work things out for our good. If we see Him as evil, we will be so fearful of Him and our relationship with Him will also be marked by fear.
Friends, let me encourage you to believe that God is good. In fact, He's the only one that's good. We all have to believe that God is good regardless of what we feel, think, or what we are going through. Here are some things that God wants to do to you, to us because He is good.
1. Purify us from all unrighteousness
God wants to cleanse us and take away all unrighteousness from us. 1 John 1:8-9 tells us, "If we claim not to have sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we acknowledge our sins, then, since he is trustworthy and just, he will forgive them and purify us from all wrongdoing."
2. Secure us in His love
God wants to secure us in His love. Back when we didn't know God, we used to live in fear of His punishment of our sins, either consciously or unconsciously. But now that we are in Christ, God wants us to know that we are forever secured in His love.
Romans 8:37-39 tells us, "Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
3. Transform us to the image of Christ
There could be nothing more glorious for us humans than this: that we would be conformed to the image of Christ. This is God's reason for everything that happens in our lives.
Romans 8:28-30 tells us, "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified."
