THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ‘GOOD’ AND ‘good’

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Good can be defined as anything and everything that makes up part of GOD’s plan for our lives.
Good in this sense is also what is truly beneficial for us in the mind and will of GOD. Whereas,
good can be anything that our mind, will, desires, feelings or passions are drawn to sometimes,
these goods are not part of GOD ’s plan and therefore, are not truly GOD .
During creation, GOD gave us passions, feelings and emotions, these are essential parts of every
soul but they can as well as lead us to either committing evil or good actions basing on what
they become attached to. The spiritual appetites are designed to be drawn to the good and
repulsed by evil. However, they are easily deceived. It is very possible for a passion to be drawn
to something it perceives as good but which is in fact evil. For example, someone longs to be
rich and they are entirely convinced in their mind that wealth is the solution to all their
problems and a situation or opportunity of acquiring wealth presents itself and instead they
acquire the wealth through malicious acts, forgery and deception, all these which are against
the will of GOD .
Passions are powerful forces, but passions can ultimately be used for good when we make GOD
and His will the good we seek. If we do this, the person then ‘falls in love’ with GOD and His holy
will. They then passionately choose GOD, and they desire to please Him and express their love
for Him in a passionately holy way.
Feelings and emotions are closely related to the passions and obey similar principles. The key to
understanding these aspects of our personality is to realize that whatever is first chosen in our
minds will then be followed by our passions, desires, feelings and emotions. They may not
follow right away, but in time they will. And the perfection of the human person is achieved
when one’s entire being (mind, soul, heart and strength) moves in unity toward the true, the
good, the one and the beautiful; namely toward GOD.

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