“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8-9 New Living Translation (NLT)
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
SOMETHING HAPPENS AND THERE’S FALLOUT BEYOND THE INCIDENT
GOODNESS
SOMEONE WHO IS KIND, HELPFUL, OR HONEST.
Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
PSALM 34:8 NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)
The Lord is good and does what is right;
he shows the proper path to those who go astray.
PSALM 25:8 NLT
For the Lord is good. His unfailing love continues
forever, and his faithfulness continues
to each generation.
PSALM 100:5 NLT
“No,” they said. “We want to go with you to your people.”
But Naomi replied, “Why should you go on with me? Can I still give birth to other sons who could grow up to be your husbands? No, my daughters, return to your parents’ homes, for I am too old to marry again. And even if it were possible, and I were to get married tonight and bear sons, then what?
RUTH 1:10-13 (NLT)
Would you wait for them to grow up and refuse to marry someone else? No, of course not, my daughters! Things are far more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord himself has raised his fist against me.”
RUTH 1:10-13 (NLT)
“Don’t call me Naomi,” she responded. “Instead, call me Mara, for the Almighty has made life very bitter for me. I went away full, but the Lord has brought me home empty. Why call me Naomi when the Lord has caused me to suffer and the Almighty has sent such tragedy upon me?” So Naomi returned from Moab, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, the young Moabite woman. They arrived in Bethlehem in late spring, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
RUTH 1:20-22 (NLT)
Then the women of the town said to Naomi, “Praise the Lord, who has now provided a redeemer for your family! May this child be famous in Israel. May he restore your youth and care for you in your old age. For he is the son of your daughter-in-law who loves you and has been better to you than seven sons!”
RUTH 4:14-17 (NLT)
Naomi took the baby and cuddled him to her breast. And she cared for him as if he were her own. The neighbor women said, “Now at last Naomi has a son again!” And they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse and the grandfather of David.
RUTH 4:14-17 (NLT)
The Lord is good to everyone. He showers compassion on all his creation.
PSALM 145:9 (NLT)
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
ROMANS 8:28 (NLT)
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
HEBREWS 13:8 (NLT)
For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.
JOHN 3:16-17 (NLT)