”Lord, you are my portion and my cup of blessing; you hold my future. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. You reveal the path of life to me; in your presence is abundant joy; at your right hand are eternal pleasures.“
Psalms 16:5-6, 11 CSB
What a subtle and encouraging Psalm! David has such peace and confidence in how the Lord has blessed him. Even more wonderful is that the blessing is not because of great wealth or other physical things: it is God Himself. In Christ, as followers of Jesus, we get that same blessing, God the Holy Spirit dwells within us!!!
The next line is what blows me away! My “boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places”… We all understand that God has given us rules and guidelines in which to live out our life. Many times those rules are opposite of what we naturally desire, sometimes they are frustrating but in the end make sense, occasionally we are totally on board with them. But what David is saying is that all of those rules, when we live surrendered to them, are joyful and bring great pleasure!
I feel like I can wholly agree with David on this statement for the first time in my life! Previously, I found many of the rules made sense but I lived with a constant dissatisfaction and I couldn’t experience this “abundant joy” or “eternal pleasure” David was talking about…only in the last year have I experience these incredible promises to the fullest extent! The missing piece was surrender. Surrender is having a confidence in God to do what is best in your life while not trying to control the details.
Lord, I can confidently repeat David’s sentiments “The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places”. Help me to stay surrendered in every part of life so that I can continue to live today in your abundant joy and eternal pleasures!
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