In Your Presence There Is Fullness Of Joy; At Your Right Hand there Are Pleasures For Evermore
Fulfilment Of Life Comes Only From God
PSALMS 16:7-11
“I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel; My heart also instructs me in the night seasons. I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope. For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
”Psalms 16:7-11 NKJV
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It is our nature to make our own plans and then ask God for His blessing upon them.
But Surely it would it be wise to seek God’s will first.
By constantly involving God and thinking about Him and His way of living, we will gain insight that will help us make right decisions based on God’s will for us and live the way God wants us to live.
By saying, “I shall not be moved,” David was speaking of the unique sense of security felt by believers.
God does not exempt us believers from the day to day circumstances of life, and like unbelievers we experience troubles, pain, and failure at times (MATHEW 5:45).
There are always consequences for our decisions and actions, both good and evil.
However, unbelievers lack even hope, and never get to understand or experience the true purpose of their life.
Whilst those who seek God, can move ahead, confident and full of joy in knowing that God will keep them on His chosen path, and that the pains of life we suffer are temporary, for the best is yet to come, unbelievers will go their own way and even find happiness, but that happiness is temporary and short lived, for their sin has justified their ultimate destiny and death shall have its way.
Without God we humans are empty and cannot be fulfilled, for their happiness comes from the temporary things of this failing world, and that their accomplishments are to be in vain.
They are very aware that their lives, along with their riches if they have them, along with their dreams, goals, and successes, are to come to a crashing end and death will have its way.
That is why many turn to alcohol, drugs, gambling, sexual immorality, and things of this world to satisfy them, in the hope that they can fill the void in their life.
“There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches kept for their owner to his hurt. But those riches perish through misfortune; When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand. As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return, To go as he came; And he shall take nothing from his labor Which he may carry away in his hand. And this also is a severe evil— Just exactly as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he who has labored for the wind?”
Ecclesiastes 5:13-16 NKJV
David’s heart was glad for he had found the secret of continuous joy.
Happiness is temporary because it depends upon your circumstances, but you can experience joy in spite of your deepest troubles.
Joy in the Lord is lasting because it comes from God’s presence within us. Furthermore, joy of the Lord is our strength (NEHEMIAH 8:10).
As we contemplate His daily presence we will find contentment, as we get to understand the future He has for us we will no only experience joy, but His faithfulness and His peace; God’s peace that surpasses all understanding and it shall guard our hearts and minds through Christ (PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7).
Many fear death because we can neither understand nor control it. But David was confident that God wouldn’t leave him in Sheol (death).
We believers we can be confident that God will not leave us even when we die.
Jesus overcome the power of death when He died on a cross to pay our debt of sin and was raised; therefore, if we believers are to suffer with Him, we shall also rise with Him.
My beloved, death for believers has become a doorway into resurrection life.
“This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him.”
II Timothy 2:11 NKJV
Though we die to sin, and the old man is dead, we are born again into God’s family to live forever with Him, where their will be no more suffering, pain or even death, for the former things have passed away (see REVELATION 21:3-5).
“For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 6:5-11 NKJV
Truly, truly, in the presence of God, there is fullness of joy and at His right hand are pleasures for evermore.
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
