With Him At My Right Hand, I Will Not Be Shaken
Death Is Just A Doorway Into Resurrection Life
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); their are always consequences for our decisions and actions.
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, unbelievers will go their own way and even find happiness, but that happiness is temporary and short lived for sin shall have it’s way.
That is why many turn to alcohol, drugs, sexual immorality, and things of this world to satisfy them, in the hope that they can fill the void in their life.
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 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 experience joy, and as we experience His faithfulness we will experience 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 even 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 becomes 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 shall pass 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
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
