Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 16:2, where we read these words:
“I say to the LORD, ‘You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.’ ” (ESV)David owns the Triune God as his own; and he (David) fully realized that this involved two amazing (polar-opposite) truths. . . . One, that because YHWH was his, through his faith in Christ, he (David) possessed *all* good things (cf. vv. 5 & 6); and, two, that David possessed *nothing* good in himself, as a fall-en sinner.
These realizations are key to all authentic, Spirit-filled Christian living. We have *everything* in Jesus and His gospel of grace; and we have *nothing* worthwhile in ourselves—as any of those things are in any way independent of Christ.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Take heed, that you do not lay the stress and weight of all your comfort upon duty . . . " —William Bridge, in, "A Lifting Up For The Downcast"]
[Puritan quote of the day: "Take heed, that you do not lay the stress and weight of all your comfort upon duty . . . " —William Bridge, in, "A Lifting Up For The Downcast"]
