The goodness of God endures continually.—Psalm 52b
The world is filled with evil but the goodness of God endures continually. Beloved…focus your heart right there today. Let this verse be your song in the night and your light in the darkness. Let its truth lift your heart and enable your spirit to sing as the nightingale. Let it be the lens through which you view your circumstances as well as the world around you.
As a believer, Christ has stepped into our darkness. His steadfast love never ceases. His mercy, grace, and lovingkindness surround us and follow hard after us. In Him is our hope and our comfort even and especially in the midst of tragedy, turmoil, grief and unrest. Cleave unto Him. His goodness endures continually.
But the lovingkindness of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who [reverently] fear Him, And His righteousness to children's children,—Psalm 103:17
O give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;
For His compassion and lovingkindness endure forever! —Psalm 107:1
I would have despaired had I not believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD
In the land of the living.
Wait for and confidently expect the LORD;
Be strong and let your heart take courage;
Yes, wait for and confidently expect the LORD.—Psalm 27:13-14
The wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul still remembers
And sinks within me.
21 This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.
22 Through the LORD's mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
24 "The LORD is my portion," says my soul,
"Therefore I hope in Him!"—Lamentations 3:19-24
7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
8 The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of my life.—Psalm 42:7-8
Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name;
You are Mine.
2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.—Isaiah 43:1-2
“When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the LORD;
And my prayer went up to You,
Into Your holy temple.—Jonah 2:7
Trust in Him at all times, you people;
Pour out your heart before Him;
God is a refuge for us.
Selah—Psalm 62:8
“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith”—1 John 5:4
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.—Romans 8:37-39
22 Through the LORD's mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
24 "The LORD is my portion," says my soul,
"Therefore I hope in Him!"
25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,
To the soul who seeks Him.—Lamentations 3:22-25
