Psalm 16
Scripture:
Therefore, my heart rejoices and my spirit rejoices, and my flesh will live in safety. For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will you let your Holy One see corruption. (Poetry 16:9- 10)
Key words:
You can't leave my soul in the underworld.
Experience:
What have you been happy about?
For me, sometimes a cross talk by Mr. Degang Guo can make me happy for a while, sometimes writing an article in one go will make me happy, and sometimes a long-standing problem suddenly flashes in front of my eyes, which also makes me very happy. However, when these external pleasures encounter real diseases, they will disappear so quickly!
The feeling of happiness is always so short, but the real suffering always seems to have no end. What can give me real strength to overcome suffering, and even make me feel happy in suffering? That is eternal hope!
A poem by David, a poem full of joy. The poet David seems to have a lot to be happy about. For example, those beautiful and kind saints, the inheritance of the beautiful land measured by God. However, apart from these external things, what really delighted the poet David was some kind of transcendental hope. For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will you let your Holy One see corruption.
"David, as a prophet, knew that God had sworn to him that one of his descendants would sit on his throne and see this in advance, and said that Christ was resurrected." His soul will not be left in the underworld and his body will not rot. " God has raised this Jesus from the dead, and we are all witnesses of this. "(Acts 2:30-32)
The solemn declaration made by the apostle Peter on Pentecost shows the world that the immortal saints praised by the poet David can really bring people eternal hope. Is the savior of the world, Jesus Christ!
Dear, although there is a short happiness in this life, our real happiness is about eternity. Therefore, when you set your eyes on the eternal one, please remember what the apostle Paul said: "If we only rely on Christ to have hope in this life, then we are more pitiful than others." ( 15: 19)
Pray:
Eternal Lord, because eternal hope is in my heart, I will still rejoice in trouble. Amen!