Our Foundation
God’s goodness is not something to be proven in objective terms but experienced through self-identification. When we pray, repent, and reside upon our past errors, we can see the divine patterns otherwise hidden from within the ostensible chaos of existence. God’s goodness is an active force that moves through our lives, shaping our choices, and guiding us toward our greatest purposes. Even in moments of doubt or failure, there is a divine design at work beyond human ambitions. The Apostle, Paulus, understood this deeply; he saw God’s goodness as the very foundation upon which all truth rests, and through this foundation was founded the ultimate and unbreakable faith.
This goodness of God, and His plans, is not something we can own or direct, it is a noumenal reality that we align with in faith, to live in harmony with His presence. It is in our acts of kindness, our willingness to listen, and our capacity for forgiveness that we find the truest proof of the divine patterns hidden within life’s seeming chaos. To recognise God’s goodness is to accept that even in our most painful moments, there is potential for healing and transformation; our own ability to align with God’s goodness.
Without God the ‘ideal’ world would be one in which every single person is driven by their own greedy ambitions and sin-soaked fears, never pausing to consider anything else greater than themselves. An endless prison of selfishness where the default is every soul trapped by its own material delusions. Ironically, the only way to truly understand the depths of God’s goodness is to embrace its harmony, and no textbooks will teach this, only experience and lessons in life.
The alternative is in reducing our lives to mere spectacle, devoid of meaning or purpose. Alignment to goodness of God in the wider world is the largest part of His plan, teaching us to value connection over isolation, to recognise there is wisdom to be recovered from failure, and that true understanding is not found in attempting an impossible perfection but in the willingness to live with grace in humility, as aligned to God, and cease in sinful thoughts or actions as soon as they show. God’s goodness is an obstacle to the faithless. To the faithful, it is a foundation from which we can build a real life and understand the deeper meaning of our existence.
