"This is God’s unchangeable disposition towards the creation; He can be nothing else, but all goodness towards it because He can be nothing towards the creation but that which He is and was and ever shall be in Himself . . . an eternal unchangeable will to all goodness, and which can will nothing else to all eternity, but to communicate good, and blessing and happiness and perfection to every life, according to its capacity to receive it. Had I one hundred lives, I could with more ease part with them all, by suffering one hundred deaths than give up this lovely idea of God."
-William Law
What is this blind spot that we don’t know that we don’t know? It is the perpetually perfect goodness of God. Certainly, the Body of Christ has given lip-service to the concept of God’s goodness. We may often say, pray or sing, “God is good.” Yet, we thoroughly contaminate and cripple the reality of God’s goodness by what we really think and believe about Him. Even though we call God good, we still tragically believe God creates, causes or allows evil.
