‘Good will toward men’ – declared by a multitude of the heavenly host at the birth of Jesus. Then, 2 chapters later in Luke 4, Jesus expressed that good will in Nazareth when he said:
The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.
Tragically, those who heard him that day so rejected his good will toward them that they led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built to throw him down over the cliff (where, Jesus passing through the midst of them went his way).
Ten verses later and at a different location, a group of people accepted his good will toward them, and all those who had any that were sick with various diseases brought them to him (Jesus); and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.
God is for us, and offers us only good will through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus – as documented in the Bible. The effect his good will has in our lives is our choice.
Choose life.
Read it for yourself. 