Instead of surrendering to the darkness of despair, David fired up his confidence in an unchanging God. You and I need to do the same. We need to get hold of some promises. People will say, I don't know how she can be so strong through this . . . and How can he just keep going with everything that's happening?
Here's the answer to those questions-we fix our hope on our promise-keeping God. Psalm 46:10 reminds us to "be still, and know that I am God." When we come to the place where we can't do anything else, we must stand still and believe. We may think that's the worst possible place to be, but God loves it when we're there. When we can't do anything, we must let God do it all or throw in the towel.
"I will not despair, God is always good." With this promise, you get to God's heart. Not only is He with you; not only is He sovereign and ordering the circumstances of your life, but God is also good. God's goodness is the ultimate rescue net under all of life's experiences.
The goodness of God is stamped all over Scripture. Psalm 27:13 says, "I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living"(NASB). I love David's honesty. Here was the only man called "a man after [God's] own heart" (1 Samuel 13:14), a former giant-slayer, anointed to be king of Israel, but no stranger to suffering, saying, I would have lost it if I had not believed.
We don't know what circumstances David was facing when he composed this psalm, but his concluding statement is full of faith. Despair wasn't avoided by seeing the goodness of the Lord but by believing he would again see God's goodness. David had seen it, and he believed he would see it again. But at the moment, he had to trust the time would come when he would again see God's goodness. Why? Because God is good even when we can't see it.
You will lose hope if your eyes are anywhere but on the Lord. When your eyes are fixed on Him, you will see His goodness. It may not be today, but you can join David in believing that you will "see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living."
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