- Good
Psalm 145:9a
The Lord is good to all:
“God is good!” This prayer or praise verse or proclamation is basic and essential to our life and faith while living on the earth. God is good in every way imaginable, and God is good to us in every way that we need Him. Not only is God good, He does good things and gives good things.
We can take this promise personally that God will be good to us, but we also take this promise generally that God will be good to all. God will be good to every created person whether good or bad, believer or unbeliever, just or unjust just because God is good and He loves everyone. “He makes his sun rise on (blesses) the evil and the good; He sends rain on (blesses) the just and the unjust.” [Matthew 5:45] Therefore, Jesus says, love your enemies, love all people; your Father does, so do you also.
Because the Lord promises to be good to all people we can pray for all people that they will live in peace and enjoy the blessings of the Lord. We can pray for our enemies and those who do not like us. When we do so we can then greet them pleasantly and treat them as we would like to be treated. When we are able to think and remember that if God loves this or that person no matter what he does or says, then I can, too. This promise that God loves all people gives us the desire and the ability to love all people, even the unlovable. This is a promise we can all live with.