The Goodness of God by Jos. Clarke

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 19, 1874

The Goodness of God.

By Jos. Clarke

“O! how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee.” Ps. 31: 19. The goodness of God is a subject to which there is no limit. While the murmurer is murmuring against God, his goodness continues on, like the ocean waves, forever and forever.

Sin has blighted man's fair domain, Satan has erected his throne in the midst of Adam's beautiful inheritance, and the once noble race of man, has fallen almost as low as the rebel angels, and everywhere God is blasphemed; but above the confusion, the war and the carnage, above the wail of sorrow, and want, and woe, and pain, we hear the ceaseless song of nature, everywhere singing in sweet harmony, with her countless voices, God is good.

At the creation of the universe, the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy; but when man fell, their harps were hushed in sorrow for a time. Again, as the plan of redemption was published, the song of angels was resumed, and in more joyous strains, and with nature they echoed the rapturous song, God is good.

We may be burdened each with his little load of care, regret, and anxiety, we may be tossed upon the ocean of apparent uncertainty, where life is expiring all around us, and our little barks may seem frail and dangerous, yet if we make God our refuge, we too shall join the angels' song, and cry with rapture, God is good. Jos. Clarke.