GOD’S COUNSEL OF SUCCESS
Psalm 16:7-9,11
I will bless the Lord Who has given me counsel.
Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
I have set the Lord continually before me.
Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad and my glory [my inner self] rejoices.
My body too shall rest and confidently dwell in safety.
You will show me the path of life.
In Your presence is fullness of joy.
At Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
It is the Lord Who gives us counsel, even as we sleep. When we seek Him first in our lives, He is there to direct us and guides us in all our affairs of life. Therefore, we do not have to be moved off our stand of faith and trust in Him.
God has everything for us in the palm of His hand. If He can measure the depth of the oceans with one drop of water in His hand, He can surely carry in the palm of His hand His plans for us. The only thing that stops the Lord from bringing the fullness of the pleasures to us is our lack of trust in Him. We become so afraid that it won’t happen for us personally that we are even afraid to trust anymore. We have all been there. Our thinking goes something like this: It didn’t happen when I thought I was believing with all my heart. Couldn’t He have come through for me! Why does it have to be so hard? Why do others receive and I don’t? What is wrong with me? Honestly, isn’t that what we think?
Let’s finally put to rest the past failures of unbelief. Let’s bury that mentality. So what if you didn’t believe before? Are you going to let it dictate the rest of your life? If there weren’t results, get up and go again. Get on that horse and ride it again. If you fall off, get up, dust off your britches and try again until you learn to ride that horse. Stop letting the failure history dictate your future. Decide to believe, in spite of everything to the contrary. What have you got to lose? If you don’t believe, it won’t happen anyway, so why not believe and give God an opportunity to release His Blessing upon you.
We are to rest confidently in Him for He will show us the path of life. We all know that in His Presence is a fullness of joy and contentment that we can get nowhere else. With Him we will enjoy our lives throughout all eternity.
Let us make a quality decision today (one from which we do not turn back) that we will trust the Lord to be in charge of our lives and that we will allow Him to give us all the treasures that He has laid up for us who are His children. There are multitudes of blessings that we have not even begun to receive. Today and every day is your day of receiving. Take it now. Grab hold of it! And don’t let go! And don’t let that forward pass of God’s blessing be fumbled from your hand of receiving!