Yet I wondered how we can say these things in the midst of living in this world with family. For example as I prepare for marriage. How could David say apart from you I have no good thing. But the answer is in the text I think in the very next verse as David also says I say of the holy people who are in the land ... in whom is all my delight. The holy people of God seem to be part of his proclamation that apart from God he has no good thing.
And I think that I too can delight in my wife even as we become one before the Lord. For I am blessed to have found a noble wife. One whose heart is after the Lord and his heart. For she is a woman of faith, love and holiness with propriety as 1 Timothy 2:15 says. Thank you God for Ivanna and that together before you we can say as one You are my Lord; apart from you we have no good thing."
Also the eternal perspective is crucial too. For everything in this world will pass away. Our inheritance and our hope is eternal life and treasures in heaven. To know God the Father and his son Jesus Christ and to inherit a dwelling in His holy presence in the new city and to live forever with Him.
Lord help me to say you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure. And as circumstances of life go up and down would you help me say the boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. That I might pursue Godliness with contentment knowing that it is great gain as 1 Timothy 6:6 says.
1 Keep me safe, my God,
for in you I take refuge.
for in you I take refuge.
2 I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
apart from you I have no good thing.”
3 I say of the holy people who are in the land,
“They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”
4 Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more.
I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods
or take up their names on my lips.
apart from you I have no good thing.”
3 I say of the holy people who are in the land,
“They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”
4 Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more.
I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods
or take up their names on my lips.
5 Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup;
you make my lot secure.
6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
surely I have a delightful inheritance.
7 I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;
even at night my heart instructs me.
8 I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
you make my lot secure.
6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
surely I have a delightful inheritance.
7 I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;
even at night my heart instructs me.
8 I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
my body also will rest secure,
10 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
nor will you let your faithful[b] one see decay.
11 You make known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
my body also will rest secure,
10 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
nor will you let your faithful[b] one see decay.
11 You make known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
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