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Psalm 16: The Lines in Pleasant Places
Here is a man who has found the secret that most of us spend our lives circling without quite landing upon: that God himself is the inheritance. Not what God gives, mind you, but God. The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup. Most of us, if we are honest, treat God as the means to some other end — peace, perhaps, or purpose, or the avoidance of something dreadful. David has cut through all of that. And from this discovery flows one of the loveliest lines in all the Psalms: the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places. This is not the voice of a man whose circumstances are easy — it is the voice of a man whose center of gravity has shifted. When God is the portion, then the boundaries of your life, wherever they fall, are pleasant. And then comes that final, breathtaking turn: in thy presence is fulness of joy, at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Not duty. Not mere endurance. Pleasures — and forever.
00:00 Preserve Me, O God
00:20 The Lord Is My Portion
00:35 The Lines in Pleasant Places
00:48 Counsel in the Night Seasons
01:00 The Path of Life
01:15 Fulness of Joy at His Right Hand
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0:0016. Preserve me, O God, for indeed do I put my trust. O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord, my goodness extended not to thee. But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent in whom is all my delight, their sorrows shall be multiplied, that hasten after another God. Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup, Thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, ye, I have a goodly heritage. I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel. My reigns also instruct 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.
1:03Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices. My flesh also shall rest in hope. For Thou will not leave my soul and hell. Neither will Thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. Thou will show me the path of life, in thy presence is fullness of joy. Thy right hand, there are pleasures forevermore.
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