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She writes, “Often, when I think of how good-natured God is, I am reminded of my grandfather. All of his grandchildren called him ‘Pop.’ “Pop was a truly good, kindhearted man, and he loved to do good things for everyone—especially his grandchildren. We quickly figured out that he would say yes to almost anything we asked him to do. I never remember him saying no. “Even before I had my driver license, he let me drive his pickup around the Arkansas countryside. I remember times he even let me take it to the movies in a nearby town. If my grandmother had not been there to stop him, I think Pop would have given us anything we wanted. Although it has been many years since he passed over, every time our family gets together, we talk about Pop. It makes us happy just to remember how good he was to us.” The goodness of Pop is a picture of the goodness of God. God’s motives are pure. He has no hidden agendas. He never thinks about Himself. His only desire is to do good for His children. He continually displays His love, compassion and goodness. Just How Good Is God? God is absolute good. He is good to the furthest extreme possible. There is no bad in Him. The Hebrew for goodness is “good in the widest sense of the word.” Good is who God is and good is what God does. As Gloria states in her book, God could be called “Jehovah the Good”—for that is who He is. While preparing for my first Wednesday night service on this subject, I was meditating on how to define the magnitude of God’s goodness. I wanted to communicate how good God is in the simplest phrase possible. At that moment, the phone rang. It was my daughter, Aubrey. I asked her how she would define the goodness of God. Without hesitation she said, “The goodness of God is the greatest good man could ever think of—only greater!” I immediately responded with Ephesians 3:20, "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition:" “Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams].” Think about the greatest good God could do for you. Don’t hold back. Picture the most wonderful thing that could happen in your life. Do you have that image in your mind? Now, think about this—His goodness is greater still! No matter what we desire, the goodness of God will always “do superabundantly, far over and above all that we dare ask or think infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts or dreams.” That is how good God is to us. The goodness of God is meant to overwhelm us because He is good all the time! No Limit to His Goodness The goodness of God covers the entire spectrum of whatever we need. There is no limit to all He has and no limit to all He wants to do. BVOV : 23