WHAT IS GOOD?

You're more likely to answer that a good person is someone who does good. But have you ever considered that even bad people are capable of doing good?

The most horrible of persons can still exhibit kindness, generosity and consideration every now and then.

If that's the case, then what exactly makes a person good? What exactly makes something good? What exactly is good?

If anybody can do good, and anything can appear to be good, then what defines good? What makes good, truly good?

We all know the statement, "God is good."

Which means that if God is the standard of good, then to understand what is good, we have to understand the will of God. Not performative good. Not pseudo good, not simply what looks good to us, but good as defined by the One who is good.

Therefore, what is in God's will is good, and perhaps that's the distinction we've been missing. An action doesn't become good simply because it produces a good-looking result, neither does a person become good simply because they occasionally do good things.

There has to be a standard beyond the act itself, because if God is good, then anything that is truly good must ultimately agree with Him. Anything outside of God may look good, feel good, or even produce something we consider good, but it cannot be the ultimate definition of good.

Do you get?

Dearest reader, what led me here?

In doing a recent assignment my coach gave me, I had to read the story of a woman who did almost the same thing Delilah did, and yet, we see her in a completely different light.

Her actions involved deception, but they contributed to the preservation of God's people. Meanwhile, when we think of Delilah, we immediately associate her with betrayal and destruction.

Same kind of action, different people, different purposes, different alignment. 

And that got me thinking.

If the same thing can be done by two different people and interpreted so differently, then perhaps goodness cannot simply be determined by what was done.

There has to be a standard beyond the work itself, and for me, that standard is God. Because maybe the real question isn't just, "Was this good?"

Maybe the deeper question is, "Was this in agreement with the One who defines good?"

@favvy_Okwans🖤.