by Jacki C. King Church Answers Women
Every few years a movie or cultural moment pushes us to wrestle with big ideas, questions of justice, identity, purpose, and of course, what it really means to be good. With the release of the movie, “Wicked: For Good,” conversations about goodness, darkness, and the blurry line between them are circulating again. Anytime a new buzz word and phrases start to pop up, it’s a perfect moment for Christians, especially women seeking to live faithfully in their generation, to pause and ask: Do we understand goodness the way God defines it?
Because the truth is, most of us absorb our ideas of “good” without ever examining them. Culture catechizes us subtly through storylines, lyrics, and characters, often convincing us that goodness is something found within or achieved by our own efforts. Without intentionally looking to Scripture and remembering what we are actually working toward, we can easily end up pursuing the wrong thing. So what is biblical goodness? And why does it matter for the way we live, love, and serve today in our homes, workplaces, and communities?
Goodness Begins in the Garden
Before sin fractured the world, goodness was the natural state of everything God made. Over and over again in Genesis 1, God looks upon His creation and declares:
Not just aesthetically pleasing. Not simply functional. Not good in comparison to something worse. Good because it aligned with God’s character. Good because it reflected His order, His beauty, and His intention. Goodness, in Scripture, is never self-defined. It is always God-defined because he is the ultimate source of it.
When Eve reached for the forbidden fruit, Scripture says she saw that it was “good for food… and desirable.” But she defined good on her own terms rather than…
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