"For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You."
Read all of Psalm 86
Psalm 86 is a pretty remarkable Psalm. It is a personal entreaty... a prayer to God for help. And yet it is more than this. The Psalmist takes the opportunity of his prayer and meditation upon the things of God to identify the remarkable blessings that belong to all of God's people.
Verse 5 is the first of three such affirmations (see also verses 10 + 15) that encourage us to trust and rely upon the Lord Himself. The goodness of God might sound routine or a cliche, bit it refers to God's very nature. He is good, and all that that means. Because He is good, he is ready to forgive and rich in mercy toward those who call upon him.
Part of the mystery of the Christian faith is that we can't and don't see all things as they really are. We live as we say by faith (another potential cliche), trusting and hoping in the God of Scripture. Herein lies the rub, we ought not to just trust and believe in the idea of God or the concept of God, but in God Himself. This is what the Psalmist was doing... and this is what we must do.
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