Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, March 5th.

Do you associate God's care with what happens around you?

Today, you'll learn that even in hard times, God expresses his loving kindness.

Here's a timely reminder of the goodness of God.

When you think about God, what words come to your mind? Things like

omnipotent, omnipresent, merciful, justice, conviction. What are the words that come to your mind?

I wonder where in all the words that you think about

goodness comes into your mind about God. I think that so many people think in terms of how great,

mighty, and powerful God is that oftentimes, even though we talk about him being a loving

father and full of kindness and mercy and grace, somehow we can't get him down to earth

to the point of just being plain old good, just God being good to us. And I want you to turn

to the 31st Psalm, and I just want us to look at one verse in the scripture because the psalmist here

declares something about the goodness of god that i want us to notice

psalm 31 and verse 19 so he says in the psalms here verse 19 how great is thy goodness which thou

has stored up for those who fear thee which thou hast wrought for those who take refuge in thee.

Now let's read it again. Notice what he says. How great is thy goodness, which he has stored up

for those who fear thee. Now, when we think about the goodness of God, I want us to think about it

in terms of two things. First of all, in the terms of goodness as an attribute. That is,

goodness is characteristic of God. If you describe God, you can't describe him fully until you

also include the fact that God is a good God, that God is a God full of goodness. Now,

what is that goodness? Goodness is the highest standard of good,

which God himself is and can perform. And so when somebody says, well, how good is God? Here's how good God is.

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