Your Goodness Is Running After Me
A Reflection on Psalm 23:6 (Amplified)
Surely goodness and mercy and unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life. (Psalm 23:6, AMP)
Your goodness is running after me—not a distant hope, a someday-promise on a shelf,
But a pursuing love, outpacing my own self.
With every step I take, forward or in flight,
It chases down my darkness with relentless light.
Your goodness runs.
It follows me through crowded streets and silent rooms,
Through every corridor where shame or sadness looms.
It is the constant whisper when the world is loud,
The breaking of the dawn behind the darkest cloud.
Your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life. (Psalm 23:6, NLT)
When I turned my back, thinking I had fled Your gaze,
I found it was Your goodness that had marked my ways.
It was the arms of morning that I could not outrun,
The certain, steady heartbeat of a love I had not won.
It runs in forgiveness when I falter, fall, and fail.
It runs in provision—a ship with every sail
Filled by the wind of grace I did not earn or seek.
It runs in strength supplied to weary ones and weak.
Your goodness is running after me—not to catch me in a trap,
But to embrace me, to anoint me, to close every gap
Between where I am and where You want me to be,
To chase me down with mercy and set my spirit free.
And on the days I stand still, breathless, overcome,
Your pursuing goodness does not merely come—
It collides with grace, a tide that knows no shore,
And whispers, "Child, I have been here forevermore."
So I will stop my striving. I will let myself be found,
Enfolded by a goodness that has my life surrounded.
For I cannot escape it, this love that will not cease,
Your goodness, in its running, has become my perfect peace.
All my life…
You have been faithful.
And Your goodness is running after me.
Before I was, You are.
You have been, You are, You always will be.
Your goodness runs. It never stops. It never will.
Amen.
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