Psalm 138:8

The past few days the same verse has been echoing in my head. The Psalmist writes:

"He will fulfill his purposes for us;
your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever.
Do not forsake the work of your hands."
- Psalm 138:8 (ESV)

This is such great news ! The Lord, filled with forever-enduring steadfast love will not forsake us, but will fulfill his purposes for us.

This verse seems very similar to Romans 8:28 where Paul tell us that God "works for the good of those who love him." Unfortunately, we have an imperfect definition of good and we often view this good in terms of our own worldly interests. Does God working things out for our good mean that we're going to get everything we desire? The job? The grade? The spouse? That extra hour of sleep? Sometimes, yes. But often his will and purpose are good for us in a deeper sense than we can initially understand.

We must take comfort, then, that His purposes are for our good. And he will fulfill his purposes. He will not merely try and give up as we so often do, but his purposes will be fulfilled.

We serve a great and awesome God, don't we?