If you feel like God is inactive in your life right now, you may well find it difficult to connect with Psalm 98. Psalms like this are exhortations to jubilant celebration. They celebrate God’s goodness, faithfulness and love. But you may not feel that you have anything to celebrate right now. What if you feel remote from God? What if you feel that God is not being faithful to you? If this is how you feel, then consider this: if God has ever been good to anyone then that is good news for you, and you have much to celebrate. Why? Because whenever God does something for someone, then that is a sign for everyone. It is a sign that God is good. That God did something good for someone at some time does not indicate that this person warranted that in some way. All people are undeserving of God’s goodness, and all people can receive his blessing through Christ. In Christ we are all put on the same footing. So, if God blessed Abraham, Moses, David, Peter, Paul, and any other person since, it is because this is what he wants to do for everyone. These people were not more or less deserving than you. They were blessed because God is good and gracious. Christ paid for their guilt as he paid for yours. And the hand of blessing that was stretched out to them is stretched out to you. God is consistently and unchangeably good and gracious. So, you can celebrate that God was good to certain people at certain times, because this necessarily means that you can experience the same.
Seek God and ask him to show his faithfulness in your life.
Read Psalm 98
