With Him At My Right Hand, I Will Never Be Shaken
The Victory Is In Jesus
PSALM 16:8-11
“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 16:8-11 NKJV
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David was talking about his unique sense of safety in God’s presence when he said “I shall not be moved.”
We believers are not exempt from the circumstances of every day life; both believers and unbelievers alike experience pain, troubles, and failures at times (MATHEW 5:45).
Unlike unbelievers, believers have a confident hope over their true purpose on earth and their eternal future. Therefore those who seek God can move ahead confidently in knowing what is right in God’s eyes; they know that if they humble themselves before God and cooperate with Him, God will keep them from straying too far from His chosen paths.
David’s heart was “glad,” for he had found regardless of his faults and failures, the fullness of joy that is found in God’s presence, and that joy remains available to each and every believer today. Have you found true consistent joy in this life?
True joy goes far deeper than happiness; we can be full of joy in the Lord through the heaviest of troubles; furthermore, joy in the Lord is our strength (NEHEMIAH 8:10) and will help us through them. But happiness is based on our external circumstances, and is therefore temporary. Joy in Christ is consistent and lasting because it is based on God’s presence within and He never leaves us (JOHN 14:15-18). Therefore His continuous presence in us will bring consistent joy and contentment into our lives, even through the most extreme trials and challenges.
Whatever troubles you are facing right now, don’t base your life on your circumstances, but on God; understand the future He has for us and the very fact that God is in control and He causes all things to work together for the good of those that love God and are called according to His purpose for them (ROMANS 8:28). The truth is, however bad your situation, God can and will turn it to good. Therefore, you con confidently put your trust in Him.
Keep your focus on Christ rather than your circumstances, trusting Him, knowing He went before you to make a way, and is with you through it all (DEUTERONOMY 31:8).
My beloved, the victory is already yours through Christ who is your strength (1 CORINTHIANS 15:57).
Peter, by focusing on Jesus was able to walk on the waters of stormy seas. Like Peter, simply by remaining focused on Jesus, you can literally ride the storm in your life-yes, you can literally walk on the stormy waters. But if like Peter the noise of the storm gets too loud or overwhelms you, Jesus is right there to take your hand, lead you back to safety and then calm the storm (MATHEW 14:22-33). Either way, the victory is yours through Christ Jesus.
David confidently stated that God would not leave his soul in the abode of the dead (Sheol).
Most people fear death because they can neither control or understand it. But we believers are assured that God does not abandon us when we die. Our body’s may die, but we believers will never die-we have the confident promise of eternal life with God; He will wipe away every tear from our eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain for all these things are gone forever (REVELATION 21:3-4).
Truly, God’s presence brings with it the fullness of joy and at His right hand are pleasures forevermore.
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:31-39 NKJV
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
