Our definition of 'good' vs. God's

THIS HELPED ME THRU A ROUGH TIME
In his closing to the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus talked about two men who built homes. One built his home on the shifting sand, and the other built his home on the stable rock....In this story we see some important truths: We all will have storms in life. The rain will fall on the just and the unjust (see Matthew 5:45). Good things will happen. Bad things will happen. Inexplicable things will happen. And we had better decide now what foundation we are built on, because every life will have its share of pain....

Here's the problem: Our definition of "good" is what benefits us in the here and now, not in the by-and-by. We are interested in what will benefit us temporarily, but God is interested in what will benefit us eternally. We are interested in what will make us happy, while God is far more interested in what will make us holy.