{"id":530,"date":"2018-02-03T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T10:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=530"},"modified":"2018-02-03T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T10:53:41","slug":"we-cant-exaggerate-his-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"We Can\u2019t Exaggerate His Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><i>Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; <\/i><i><br \/>\nblessed is the man who trusts in Him! \u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/text\/ESV\/Psalm34%3A8\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\">Psalm 34:8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Either God is authentically good, or He is not.<\/strong> I would never suggest that we pretend He is different than He is. Nothing is accomplished by allowing our imagination to create our own image of God. God would then be no better than the gods made out of wood or stone, also created by human initiative. Inventing God in our minds or building Him with our hands is a similarity that is both vain and ultimately destructive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Discovering who He is and what He is like in reality is the only possible way to discover His true goodness.<\/strong> This eternal journey into His infinite goodness is the one we are privileged to embrace.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s impossible for us to create a concept of what He is like that is greater than He really is. <strong>He is either greater than we can understand, perceive, describe, or imagine, or He is not God &#8211; we are.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Neither can we exaggerate His goodness. We can twist it, pervert it, dilute it, and misrepresent it. But the one thing we can not do is exaggerate the goodness of God. It will take us all of eternity just to broach the subject of His goodness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Adapted from \u2018A Daily Encounter with the Goodness of God\u2019 Devotional by Bill Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him! \u00a0 \u00a0 Psalm 34:8 Either God is authentically good, or He is not. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blessed","category-faith","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}