If you read the opening verse closely, you’d notice it said that the earth is full of the loving kindness of God. To whose advantage do you think that is? Yours, of course! Everything God created was specially made for your comfort, and He’s already given you everything that you require to live triumphantly for His glory (2 Peter 1:3). 1 Corinthians 3:21 says all things are yours. Therefore, you don’t have to suffer or settle for the lesser things in life.
The Lord Jesus already suffered in your place, to usher you into a life of glory. Hebrews 2:10 GNB says, “It was only right that God, who creates and preserves all things, should make Jesus perfect through suffering, in order to bring many children to share his glory. For Jesus is the one who leads them to salvation.” 2 Corinthians 8:9 GNB also says, “You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; rich as he was, he made himself poor for your sake, in order to make you rich by means of his poverty.” These aren’t promises but present-hour realities to live and partake in. To enjoy God’s loving kindness in the earth today—His divine provisions and goodness—you’ve got to walk in His Word.
According to the Scriptures, we’re not called to obey the Word but to do the Word; that’s where the blessing is: “…If anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does” (James 1:23-25). How much you enjoy life, and all that Christ has done for you and made you, depends on how much of God’s Word you live-out, walk in or live by.
