Thursday, April 13, 2017

Surely Goodness and Mercy

I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever” Ps. 89:1 KJV
Around 400 years after the great psalmist of Israel King David died, the country had so abandoned their worship of God that He sent them away into exile and destroyed Jerusalem and the temple. In the midst of the overwhelming sorrow of that event Jeremiah the prophet wrote the book of Lamentations. It is an extensive confession of guilt and expression of the pain inflicted by God for Israel’s great sin.  In the very middle of that lamentation is a brilliant ray of sunshine, “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed; His compassions fail not; they are new every morning; Great is Thy Faithfulness!
God’s goodness and mercy are not always found in bouquets of flowers and sunny days. They are with us always, even in the darkest times of our lives. David had known many years of struggle and pain. He had fled from his home, lost his wife, lived as a hunted refugee in a strange land, but he said that God’s goodness and mercy followed him all the days of his life. God’s goodness was not a circumstance; it was a truth. That is still true today.

Precious Shepherd, Help us to understand that Your goodness and mercy is always true to the sheep of Your pasture. Amen.  


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