Everything he does is good:
God’s goodness is from everlasting to everlasting. He intends to do good to all his creations. The Lord sees the good in all. Genesis 1 tells us that each time he created something, he saw that it was good; The light, dividing the earth and seas, the grass and trees, the sun and moon, the sea creatures, the birds, and the creeping creatures. And finally, he created man, and to him he gave dominion over everything. All that God made, he called very good. Goodness is in his nature, and he is good to all (Ps 145:9). He knows how to give good things to those who ask him (Mt 7:11). James tells us that every good gift comes from the Father above (Ja 1:17). God’s goodness can be seen in the land of the living (Ps 27:13) if we look for it. Moses heard God’s proclamation of his goodness whisper in his ears, “The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,” (Ex 34:6-7).
Matthew 20:15-16
15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
In the parable of the good householder, we see God’s goodness. The good man went out and found men idly waiting to be hired. Now, Idleness is a dangerous state a person can land in. The Proverbs tell us that idleness leads to poverty (Pr 10:4-5), and it also leads to shame. Idleness is a dangerous state of mind that can slowly deteriorate one’s faith and a believer’s lifestyle (Ecc 10:18). There are two interpretations to this parable: one, the first men hired in the early hours are the children of Israel, and the gentile church in the following hours. And the other is the stages of life God calls laborers to get involved in God’s kingdom.
The good man agreed with the first men who were in the early hours of the morning to work for a penny. These are considered to be the young men. A penny in Roman times was a full day’s salary. The agreement he had with the other hired labor was not the penny, but what was fair. He went out about the third hour and found more idle men, and these are considered to be young adults. After that, he went at about the sixth and ninth hours, and also found some idle men; These are considered to be the middle-aged people. Finally, he went out at the eleventh hour and found idle people waiting to be hired, and these are considered to be older people. Man, in all his stages of life, has to deal with the flesh’s desire to be idle. The apostle Paul writes, “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.” (Ro 7:18).
Idleness’s effect on our lives can result in a matter of whether we become chosen or not.
Psalms 145:9
9 The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Matthew 7:11
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
James 1:17
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Psalms 27:13
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Exodus 34:6-7
6 And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Proverbs 10:4-5
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.5 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
Romans 7:18
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.