At God’s Good Pleasure

“But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases.” 
Psalm 115:3   

We often raise questions about God’s actions, but He is never obligated to explain to us His reasons. It is enough to know that it pleased Him, for whatever He does is right by definition.

For example, if someone asks why God created the universe, we must answer simply that it was  “because of Your will they existed, and were created” (Rev. 4:11). “Whatever the Lord pleases, He does, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps” (Psalm 135:6). He does not have to give account to us, for we also were created at His pleasure.

And why did He allow His Son to suffer and die on the cross? Although “He had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in His mouth.  But the Lord was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief; if He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand” (Isa. 53:9-10).
   
We may never be able to understand why God has done this, especially for sinners such as us, but we don’t have to understand. “God was well-pleased...to save those who believe” (1 Cor. 1:21), not them that understand.
   
We can be sure that God does have perfect reasons for everything
He does, and perhaps we shall understand it all in eternity. In the meantime, we are simply (with Paul) to be thankful that “God was pleased  to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles” (Gal. 1:15-16). He has, in some way beyond comprehension, “predestined us to adoption as sons through
Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will” (Eph. 1:5), and that is enough to know for now.