K-LOVE's Verse of the Day for May 26, 2025

God Is Good—No Matter What

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"God is good all the time." And then you would say, "And all the time..." And I would say, "God is good." That's a phrase that we say often as Christians, and rightly so. God is good. And that's easy to say when life is going the way you want it to go.

But what about when life is not going the way we want it? Do we still say God is good?

When Life Gets Hard

Here's the context of this verse. David is in trouble. He had friends who have betrayed him. He has people who want him dead, and they have risen up against him. And Psalm chapter 86 is his cry out to God. And then right in the middle of that Psalm is our verse here, verse 10.

So in the middle of all of those circumstances, David affirms that "God, you are great and you perform wonderful deeds." That wasn't made out of some peaceful sanctuary that David was in. That was made while he was in a furnace of affliction. Here's the point, and here's the point for us: Life around him was bad, but God is good.

There used to be a t-shirt that people would wear, and it used to bug me. It said "Life is good." And I'd see Christians wearing that shirt, and I would think to myself, "A lot of times life is not good." A better shirt would be "God is good." And God's not just good when life is good. God is good no matter what. God is good when life is bad.

The Truth We Need to Remember

Do you know that? That's true, Christian, pause. Do you know and believe that no matter what is going on in your life, no matter what is going on around you, God is good? Life may not be good—sometimes it's not. But God is always good.

If you've got trouble at home, you've got trouble in your own heart, you've got trouble at work, you've got trouble with friends—trouble is unavoidable. But God never changes. God is always good. And so David says, "You are great." Out of his trouble, he says, "You are great and you perform wonderful deeds."

God's Wonderful Deeds

The longer I've been walking with God, the more I know this to be true. I've learned it's true from reading God's Word, and I find story after story about God's wonderful deeds. And I look in my own life, and I can recount how many wonderful deeds God has done in my life.

If you have time, pause after you watch this short video. And would you consider what wonderful deeds God has done? I had a bad week last week. It was terrible in some ways, and right in the middle, God brought me three men at three different times who said almost the exact same thing, and it encouraged me and it gave me some strength that I desperately needed.

Now who sent those guys to me? We know God sent those guys to me. God performed a wonderful deed. Consider what God is doing in your life right now, and then with a full heart, say with David, "You are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God."

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God Is Good—No Matter What

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Let all that I am praise the LORD. O LORD my God, how great you are! You are robed with honor and majesty.

May God give you more and more grace and peace as you grow in your knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord.

Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong.

If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

For who is God except the LORD? Who but our God is a solid rock?

I am counting on the LORD; yes, I am counting on Him. I have put my hope in His word.

I pondered the direction of my life, and I turned to follow your laws.

The Lord cares deeply when his loved ones die.

The name of the LORD is a strong fortress; the godly run to Him and are safe.

My heart is confident in you, O God; my heart is confident. No wonder I can sing your praises!

Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony.

The LORD is good to those who depend on Him, to those who search for Him.

I long to obey Your commandments! Renew my life with Your goodness.

We put our hope in the LORD. He is our help and our shield.

The LORD will work out His plans for my life— for your faithful love, O LORD, endures forever. Don’t abandon me, for You made me.

I have come as a light to shine in this dark world, so that all who put their trust in me will no longer remain in the dark.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.

I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit.

Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the highest heavens. You have done such wonderful things. Who can compare with You, O God?

We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.

How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension!

Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the LORD will be greatly praised.

But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Yes, You have been with me from birth; from my mother’s womb You have cared for me. No wonder I am always praising You!

God’s voice is glorious in the thunder. We can’t even imagine the greatness of His power.

How sweet Your words taste to me; they are sweeter than honey.

Because of Christ and our faith in Him, we can now come boldly and confidently into God’s presence.

For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.

Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me.

I lift my hands to you in prayer. I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain.

Let me live forever in Your sanctuary, safe beneath the shelter of Your wings!

Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.

For the LORD God is our sun and our shield. He gives us grace and glory. The LORD will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right.

I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them.

May the Lord show you His favor and give you His peace.’

So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.

By His death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place.

Trust in the LORD and do good. Then you will live safely in the land and prosper.

For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died.

The LORD is good to everyone. He showers compassion on all His creation.

He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as He said would happen. Come, see where His body was lying.

Then He said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be My follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow Me."

“I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd sacrifices His life for the sheep.

The Word gave life to everything that was created, and His life brought light to everyone.

This is real love—not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.

Since He did not spare even His own Son but gave Him up for us all, won’t He also give us everything else?

Jesus found a young donkey and rode on it, fulfilling the prophecy that said: “Don’t be afraid, people of Jerusalem. Look, your King is coming, riding on a donkey’s colt.”

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by His great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation.

He personally carried our sins in His body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By His wounds you are healed.

The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the Word of our God stands forever.”

And may the Lord make your love for one another and for all people grow and overflow, just as our love for you overflows.

For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives.

May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation—the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ —for this will bring much glory and praise to God.

For it is My Father’s will that all who see His Son and believe in Him should have eternal life. I will raise them up at the last day.”

Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true wisdom. All who obey His commandments will grow in wisdom. Praise Him forever!

For God is the One who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, He will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you.

But let us who live in the light be clearheaded, protected by the armor of faith and love, and wearing as our helmet the confidence of our salvation.

Yes, You came when I called; You told me, “Do not fear.”

Rise up! Help us! Ransom us because of Your unfailing love.

Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment.

For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

What joy for the nation whose God is the LORD, whose people He has chosen as His inheritance.

Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.

As for me, I look to the LORD for help. I wait confidently for God to save me, and my God will certainly hear me.

"In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father."

Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand.

Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone.

This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.

And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then He said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.”

..."Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the LORD, that He may come and shower righteousness upon you."

"The greatest among you must be a servant."