Outstanding Stories » GOD Is Good

“GOD Is Good” is one of the outstanding stories (sub-junior) of the second biannual International Short Story Contest 2018 written by Sreejato Bhattacharya, Calcutta Boys' School, Beliaghata, India.

GOD Is Good

Once upon a time, there was a King who was very fond of hunting.

One day, whilst hunting, the King shot a wild leopard. He ran towards it to see if it was dead or not. Suddenly the nearly dead leopard jumped up and attacked the King. The chief servant managed to kill the leopard but couldn’t prevent his majesty from losing a finger.

Furious, the King said to his servant, ‘If God was good, I would not have been attacked and I certainly wouldn’t have lost my finger!”

The Servant replied, “Despite all of these things, I can only tell you that God is good and everything he does is perfect, he is never wrong.”

Outraged by his response, the King asked the servant,

“If I put you in prison, would you still think that is what’s best for you?”

The servant without any fear, humbly replied,

“Yes my King, I would still think that is the best arrangement for me.”

The enraged King ordered that the servant be imprisoned at once.

Three months later, the King and another servant left for another hunt. But, they were captured by tribe’s people who required a human sacrifice.

On the altar, the desperate King watched as his servant was killed beside him.

But, all of a sudden the tribe’s people discovered that the King was missing a finger and so they released him.

They now considered him to be “incomplete,” and so he couldn’t be offered to their God.

On returning to his palace, the King authorized the release of his servant. He went to him and humbly said,

“My friend, God was really good to me. I was almost killed, but for my missing finger, I was released.”

“However, I have a question”...the king continues.

“If God is so good, why did he allow me to put you in prison?”

The servant wisely replied

“My King, had I not been in prison I would have been with you, and I would have been sacrificed since I have no missing finger.”

The king laughed and said,

“That’s correct!! Everything really does happen for a reason”.

Our lives are full of ups and downs.

Be calm and positive.