Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23:6
Here is another example of God’s generous heart. Because the Shepherd is ever present with us, goodness and mercy are always in the picture. The promise says “all” the days on my life. Not some. Not even most. All means all. This very day. But how can this be? What about the days of blackness, sorrow, and heartbreak? What about when sin clouds the day, whether our sin or other’s? What, then, of this goodness and mercy?!
Especially then. Surely the darkest day in all of history, the greatest act of injustice, was the day Christ was executed as a criminal—as a blasphemer. Surely a day with no mercy and no goodness. Or perhaps the greatest door to mercy and goodness the world has ever known!