F.B. Meyer wrote, “If we’ve been told we’re supposed to be on a bumpy track, then every jolt along the way simply confirms the fact that we’re still on the right road!”

If you and I could realize this about our Heavenly Shepherd, then we would be much more trusting sheep.

Psalm 23:6 speaks of the goodness and mercy of God following us all the days of our life. One writer states this, “These two angels of God—Goodness and Mercy—shall follow and encamp around the pilgrim. The white wings of these messengers of the covenant will never be far away from the journeying child, and the air will often be filled with the music of their comings, and their celestial weapons will glance around him in all the fight, and their soft arms will bear him over all the rough ways and up higher to the throne.”

Have you thought lately about the goodness and mercy of God? Have you thought about what it means to be pursued by these wonderful attributes of our Savior? Meditate on this promise today and it can’t help but change your outlook.