In the midst...

Psalm 16

A miktam of David. [a]

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Keep me safe, O God,

for in you I take refuge.

I said to the Lord, "You are my Lord;

apart from you I have no good thing."

As for the saints who are in the land,

they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight. [b]

The sorrows of those will increase

who run after other gods.

I will not pour out their libations of blood

or take up their names on my lips.

Lord, you have assigned me my portion and my cup;

you have made my lot secure.

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;

surely I have a delightful inheritance.

I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;

even at night my heart instructs me.

I have set the Lord always before me.

Because he is at my right hand,

I will not be shaken.

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;

my body also will rest secure,

because you will not abandon me to the grave, [c]

nor will you let your Holy One [d] see decay.

You have made [e] 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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Footnotes:
Psalm 16:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
Ps 16:3 Or As for the pagan priests who are in the land /

and the nobles in whom all delight, I said:
Ps 16:10 Hebrew Sheol
Ps 16:10 Or your faithful one
Ps 16:11 Or You will make

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The white splatters against the black and red canvas. This is our soul. The twisting, the meshing, the squeezing of our flesh and the Spirit. The white dominates. In a way. It's purity doesn't go on ignored in the midst of all the darkness of the flesh. The white splashes will go out into the soul and will not stop it's work until it has worked it's way into the deepest part of the soul. It will not stop until all as been 'bleached'.

Every now and then, in my thinking, this thought moves me, the fact that my only safety is in Him. When it comes down to it, it's just me and God. Not me and my money. Not me, my money and God. Not my family and me. My friend and me, my boyfriend and me or anything. It simply is, God. And simply, me. The two of us. I have nothing else to depend on but Him. Refuge, that is the Lord's name.

Jessie has helped me to see this.

I love reading the Message. It puts things simply and into perspective.

I've definately been resting in this truth of His graceful counsel over me. Verse 7, The wise counsel GOD gives when I'm awake
is confirmed by my sleeping heart.

In my dark, I have those dark days, I was encouraged that just a few days ago, even when I felt "distant" from God, I still chose to draw into Him and He drew near. Through the dark, His light reached in.

This is my song (Verse 8-11):
Day and night I'll stick with GOD;
I've got a good thing going and I'm not letting go!

I'm happy from the inside out,
and from the outside in, I'm firmly formed.
You canceled my ticket to hell--
that's not my destination!
Now you've got my feet on the life path,
all radiant from the shining of your face.
Ever since you took my hand,
I'm on the right way.