For the LORD is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations.
God is good! Probably the first prayer to utter before our meals in our home was:
“God is great, God is good, let us thank Him for this food.”
Confessing that God is good is a necessary part of the believer’s worship. In this brief psalm we are told to worship God and make a joyful noise to him and to enter the worship place with praise and adoration for God. Why? Because God is good!! James, in his epistle, adds this thought to God being good:
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
We, in our human mind, have a different mindset as to what is good. We think of good as things that benefit us, in our journey of life. We don’t think of suffering as good. However, notice what the psalmist wrote here:
It is good for me that I was afflicted,
that I might learn your statutes.
In our walk with God, we are not to determine what the goodness looks like that walk. We are to simply rejoice and worship the fact that God is good and that His goodness is extended to those He loves who come to Him in faith. We can rejoice that whatever the road ahead holds, we are receiving goodness from a good God.
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