Psalm 34

This psalm challenges my notion of what is "good". Verses 19 and 20 offer the guidance for us to hold fast to God. Troubles may befall the follower of God but I don't call that good. God looks at things from a different perspective than I do. He looks at the end result; the picture when the good man in troubles it brought safely out of the trouble. God doesn't stay focused on the pain before the rescue if he did then Jesus would not have gone to the cross. The fact that Jesus chose that path is the example that he embraced the suffering so that he could fully liberate us from this life.
Stuart