There is a word that runs like a golden thread through the opening pages of the Bible, repeated so insistently that no reader can miss it. That word is ‘good’. God makes the light, and it is good. He separates sea from land, and it is good.
If you want to know what God is like, the Book of Exodus gives you one of the most direct answers in all of Scripture. Standing at Mount Sinai, Moses makes an audacious request: show me your glory. God's response reframes the question. It is not visual spectacle that captures God's essence.
What does it mean that God is good? One of the most searching answers in Scripture is also one of the simplest: God is good in the way a father is good. Not as a metaphor or a distant analogy, but as a living, personal, familial reality.
Benjamin Dean
When we call God good, we are not applying an external standard to him, as if goodness existed independently and God happened to measure up. We are saying something far more radical: God does not merely conform to goodness. God is goodness.