Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. This is a description of the eternal life available to us now in the kingdom of the heavens; the abundant with-God life that comes from following the Shepherd, where we dwell and abide with God in the fullness of his life—a life in which all the promises of Christ’s gospel are realized. Because of this we have no reason to be anxious (Phil. 4:6–7); the world is a perfectly safe place for us to be.
