Psalm 16 - A Balm for My Heart

Life is crazy here - but doesn't it always seem that way. I took some time tonight to read in Psalms, my MIL and I are starting up our study again and she suggested we start here. What a great place to start what a good reminder for me, and a comfort to my heart. At times as mothers we can get weary and tired and at those times it is easy to focus on the negative and get drawn into that cycle. As loving and supportive friends we want to give our friends a sympathetic ear and an empathetic heart and we too know what it is like to feel burdened and challenged. However, all too often those good intentions can serve to hinder us instead - what we need to remember is articulated here in Psalm 16 vs. 5-6


5 LORD , you have assigned me my portion and my cup;

you have made my lot secure.

6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;

surely I have a delightful inheritance.

How true this is for most of us. We have wonderful boundaries and our lives are very fufilling and special. Even with all the challenges and burdens we face and carry we need to remember that God knows our situation and he has assigned us our portion and our cup and he alone makes our lot secure. Our inheritance is a delightful one.

So whether you are struggling today with kids who won't mind, a messy home, a travelling husband, sick kids - or all the above such as myself - whatever your burden and challenges are today - lay them down for a moment and reflect on God and all he has granted you. Take a moment to feel the comfort and security of that. Here are words of wisdom far greater than I could ever give


Psalm 16
A miktam of David. [a]

1 Keep me safe, O God,

for in you I take refuge.



2 I said to the LORD , "You are my Lord;

apart from you I have no good thing."

3 As for the saints who are in the land,

they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight. [b]

4 The sorrows of those will increase

who run after other gods.

I will not pour out their libations of blood

or take up their names on my lips.



5 LORD , you have assigned me my portion and my cup;

you have made my lot secure.

6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;

surely I have a delightful inheritance.



7 I will praise the LORD , who counsels me;

even at night my heart instructs me.

8 I have set the LORD always before me.

Because he is at my right hand,

I will not be shaken.



9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;

my body also will rest secure,

10 because you will not abandon me to the grave, [c]

nor will you let your Holy One [d] see decay.

11 You have made [e] known to me the path of life;

you will fill me with joy in your presence,

with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Peace,
Tenn