Psalm 23:6 says, “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Here, we learn yet more incredible truths about the Lord. Throughout Psalm 23, the Lord is leading. But here, He is also following, or more accurately, pursuing. While what follows is said to be “goodness” and “mercy,” those traits describe God and come from Him. It’s as though the Lord is both leading and following us. In other words, He surrounds us. What a picture of total protection!
And because the Lord hems us in, then the lives of His people can be described as goodness and mercy. Amid dark valleys, it may not always feel this way. But from a later vantage point, and one day from heaven’s view, His people will be able to look back at how the Lord pursued us and will be able to say, “Surely goodness and mercy followed me all the days of my life!”