OUR CUP OF BLESSING

 Psalm 16:5 NLT 

Lord, you alone are my inheritance,

my cup of blessing.

You guard all that is mine.

V.7 I will bless the Lord who guides me;

Even at night my heart instructs me.

V.8 I know the Lord is always with me.

I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.

Apparently David was writing this psalm when he was still in exile because King Saul was after him, so although David was anointed King, he had no kingly rights, no throne, no lands, nothing in the natural. But what he did have was the Lord Himself as his inheritance and He was more than enough. 🙂

There may be times in this life when things seem to be removed from us for some reason but we can know that no one can take our God away from us. When we have God, the All Sufficient One, He is, and always will be, more than enough, because Jesus has made all His blessings available to us!

He goes on to say the Lord is his cup of blessing. We too have the cup of blessing of the Lord’s supper when we drink the cup and remember all that Jesus won for us by shedding His own blood and exchanging our sins for His righteousness, our diseases for His divine health. 

In Psalm 23 He invites us to come and feast at His table where every blessing is laid out for us to enjoy. I wonder if we do enjoy them, or do we not believe they’re for us and we leave the blessings on the table? 

David’s heart was always to bless his God because he understood how merciful and good to him He was, and we can too.🙂  Even at night, when he couldn’t sleep, he knew the Lord was with him, talking to him in the small hours of the night. How comforting that is for each one of us who might struggle with our sleep.

And no matter what happens in life, he reassures us that the Lord is always with us so we need never be shaken. After all, when we remember we have the Almighty Holy Spirit living in us, who raised Christ from the dead, then we have the ultimate security ever known to man.

How wonderful it is to consider all those things, and I hope you are truly blessed as you do.😊

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