Outcomes.

Mark 10:17 As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. 

Proof of a Broken World (God's Wrath toward his Creation):  Bad things happen to "good" people.

Proof that God's Love/Blessing is unconditional:  Good things happen to "bad" people.

On the surface this looks like, feels like and smells like injustice.  In fact, this apparent unfairness is a reason that many people believe that either there cannot be a God or that if there is a God, he/she cannot be Good.  But the ability to discern any kind of justice or fairness at all reveals our hearts desire for it.  We crave justice in our very core.  And that craving comes from...where?  

We all set up the equation and criteria based on what we already believe.  I am no exception.  I am doing it right now.  But even in periods of extreme doubt, maybe because of periods of doubt, the only criteria or equation that can resolve this seeming paradox is this: Only God is Good.

And while that may be an unsatisfactory answer to someone searching for meaning, it doesn't mean that it is not true.  In relation to God's perfection and holiness, there are no "good" people.  We all deserve "bad" outcomes.  In that context, any good thing is Grace, our very existence is Mercy, and Justice itself belongs to God.  We crave Justice yes, but we also crave the Justice giver.  But if we can comprehend that even the best of us is fatally flawed then we will crave Mercy and Grace even more...and we will want it not just for ourselves, but for everyone.

Only God is good and everything else falls short.
Mercy means that he has not destroyed us, we continue to exist.  God has withheld judgement.
Grace means that he has poured out his Love on all, without exception, making a way to his Love for anyone who seeks it.  If only God is good, then no one actually deserves his Grace, yet it is available anyway.
Justice means that because of this gap between us and God, there must be a reckoning if we are to be together with him.  A cost must be paid to account for our shortcomings.  A price must be paid to be in his presence.
Love means that God has made a way, that in his desire for all of his creation to be made whole he has made the ultimate sacrifice.  That is why Christ's Death and Resurrection is everything.  God died for us and rose again to be with us.  

Jesus remains the answer to everything, he is God's Love...he is God.  We cannot earn it and we cannot remove it.

Ephesians 2:1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.