"The Weekly Word"

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Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. Psalm 23:6 

In and of itself, this phrase sounds okay. We hear it, we know it as Christians. But my gosh, when I really unpack those words. Do I internalize them? Do I believe them? Do I rejoice in them? Do I know God’s goodness and mercy are following me all the days of my life. The days I feel exhausted and alone, the days I feel like nobody cares, the days I wonder what my purpose is, the days I wonder how I am going to get everything done. Wow is goodness and mercy from God really leading me every single day. 

The more I think about it, it’s not that God ever fails to lead us. It’s us failing to notice that leading. It’s us sometimes getting so caught up in the, what’s in it for me, that we fail to remember God says, I’m in it with you! God wants to lead us into only what is the best for us. God wants to allow us every day to feel his great goodness and mercy. It’s so hard for me to feel that leading, hey, because well, sometimes, I just don’t want to be led. I want to set out on my own. 

And what happens when I do that? I inevitably get nowhere. I’m so thankful our heavenly father always leads us in this earthly preparation. I’m so thankful this preparation will allow me to dwell in God’s goodness and mercy forever in heaven. I’m so eternally grateful that’s the case for all God’s children, all who call on him. 

So today, do you call on him even when you’re not feeling the greatest? Are you allowing God to lead even when you cannot see where the end of the path may be? Do you genuinely believe God will rest with you in a sense of unending joy? Do you feel that sense of goodness and mercy following you, pushing you, keeping you going every day of your life? Praise God, this isn’t it! As one of my deceased pastor friends often said, the best is yet to come! 

To God be the glory! 

Pastor Brandon