A few have explained suffering, death, and tragedy by insisting that God is not good, but evil. He uses His power, they tell us, to entertain Himself at our expense. Most have sought consolation in the idea that while God is good, He is not so great as to be able to keep evil from making men miserable. This solution is not acceptable because the Bible insists that God is both good and great. To say that death is good and gracious is not to deny the evils associated with death.
Death brings separation and sorrow.
The Bible does teach us that God is able to use what is, in and of itself, evil, in order to bring about what is good. Let us consider, then, how death can be called a good and gracious thing in our lives. Death is a reminder to man of the seriousness of sin in God's sight. While our society has taken a casual attitude toward sin, God never has and never will. Death is a reminder of the seriousness of sin.