In the valleys of life, He will be next to us. In the fires of suffering and persecution, He will stand with us and uphold us. In the victories, we get a foretaste of Heaven. In every season, we get the goodness of God because we get God Himself. Yet, we are so prone to forget. The evildoers’ way would not be tempting if they did not seem to win in this life.

“All my life you have been faithful,
All my life, you have been so, so good,
With every breath that I am able,
Oh, I will sing of the goodness of God.

Selah sang this song as she swept our dining room floor, and I paused and thought of how short her life has been. Nine years of faithfulness is so small compared to God being God since the creation of the world, since eternity past. He has always been who He is. There has never been a change in the immutable God.

This morning, as I read Psalm 37, I pondered and remembered Selah singing that song. The echo of her voice magnified the responsibility I have to her, her siblings, and others. The Psalmist wrote in verse 25, “I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken.”

I was once a teenage Christian, struggling with the choice to follow the ways of the world in the halls of Immokalee High School. I went to college and saw temptation overtake those who dedicated their life to the ministry of the Lord. I have been a husband and a father have seen those around me seemingly prosper while living wicked lives.

Yet, in my 33 years of life, I have never seen the righteous forsaken. In over 20 years of being a Christian, I have never seen God abandon His children. I have seen believers battle cancer, lose loved ones, lose jobs, be falsely accused, and more.

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