Hos.3:5 – Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.
David wrote and sang about the goodness of God. It is impossible to forget the Psalm of David the priests sang at the dedication of Solomon’s temple, “the Lord is good and His mercy endures forever”. Today’s verse and David’s Psalm all point to the greatest revelation of the goodness of God ever seen. What would that be? It was when God became a man and walked among us. Jesus is the image of His Father, everything about Him proclaims goodness. His words were permeated with goodness, His miracles were a display of the goodness of God, His death on the cross was a revelation of God’s goodness, and His resurrection from the dead proclaims the Lord is good and His mercy endures forever. When He opened blind eyes we saw the goodness of God, when He fed the multitudes with a little boy’s lunch He was displaying the goodness of God, and when He raised the little girl from her death bed it was a display of the goodness of God. Here is how Augustine describes today’s verse.
“You will never find a prophecy plainer than this, for the name King David signifies Christ, who, as Paul says, “was born according to the flesh of the offspring of David.” Further on still, Hosea foretold the resurrection of Christ on the third day, but in the mysterious way that is proper to prophecy. He says, “He shall heal us after two days, and on the third day we shall rise up again” (6:2). This is the theme underlying the word of Paul: “Therefore if you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above” (Col. 3:1).”
Even His commandments are good, they are all designed to keep us from ruining our lives by making poor choices. His word gives us clarity as we behold the Lord in His written word. I pray that you have a daily plan to read God’s word. This is the place He reveals himself to us and we are able to taste for ourselves the goodness of the Lord. There are so many voices trying to pull each of us away from the Lord. How can you keep yourself from turning away? Taste God’s goodness for yourself, when you do nothing else can replace Him. You will be stuck like David singing again and again, the Lord is good and His mercy endures forever.