Religious and philosophical streams share the foundational principle of goodness and what it means to be good. The idea is to be good, on some level, for some cause, be it personally beneficial, for the benefit of the group, or for the benefit of the overall global community. The human principle of goodness is being good “for goodness’ sake”, achievable using basic, agreed upon behaviors like tolerance, pity for the less fortunate, or self-denial for the sake of a cause.

Biblical Christianity teaches another approach. For Christians, all goodness is from God—He is good and is good to all, and those who know Goodness also demonstrate goodness! For us, goodness is achievable because of redemption, Gods’ unconditional love for all mankind. His love is kind, it is good, and His goodness produces spiritual fruits of goodness in and thru our lives—goodness greater than anything we knew before. Romans 2:4 Galatians 5:22 

The Lord’s redemption is not based in the goodness of man but on His own goodness to the man. He does not say to be good for anyone’s sake; rather, the definition of goodness for the Believer is that the Lord is at work in each life and the works that result are not for goodness alone but are the natural expression of lives responding to His lead.

He is good! Hallelujah! 

Amen.

John 14:12
Ephesians 3, verse 20
Philippians 2, verse 13
Jude 1, verse 24