A Year Through God's Eyes

I came into this blog with the idea that I would write every day and have insights into what I read each day. I also knew that I wanted to write something meaningful about each psalm as I read them and not move to the next one until I had done so. With that in mind, I should have realized that the first two of those three legs would cave especially as I came to the busier times of my year such as the one I find myself in right now. While I have felt the need over the past (how many days has it been Kevin?) however many days, they have not really been focused on the Psalms. I've really been stuck on 16 for a while now. The first blog I was going to write was going to be a reflection over the first 15 because I hadn't really gotten anything out of the 16th one, and while I still might do that one, it has grown less important to me as more time has passed. Then I was going to write on how tunes of hymns and words of hymns don't always match up. The more I thought about this topic, the more I realized how much that topic belongs on my other blog (nathan-musicalmusings.blogspot.com). The whole time these thoughts are going through my head, I've experienced three different situations that should have clued me into the fact that God still had something to say to me about Psalm 16. Today, I finally heard what He was trying so desperately to share with me, so without further ado:
3-The godly people in the land are my true heroes! I take [great] pleasure in them!.
When I first read through that, my initial reaction was the famous verse in Romans: For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. A pretty callous thought for it to be an initial one. Also: none are righteous, no not one. Laying that aside, I know that's not what David is getting at in this Psalm. What he is remembering as he is fleeing from his family this time are all those who have helped him along his road. First escaping from Saul, then enduring his duties as king, and now fleeing from his family. The entire time, there have been people along way such as Samuel, Michal, Jonathan, Ahimelech, Abigail, Nathan, Joab, Ziba, Hushai, and his 30 mighty men who have kept David firmly in God's sights, assisted him when he was in trouble, and counseled him when he turned from God. These are the people David is taking about. Not that these men are perfect, and perfect in God's sight, far from it, but they were placed with David at a time that David needed them and they were obedient to what God asked them to do.
As I said before, over the past few weeks, the Jones family has been dealing with a lot of uncertainty about living, job security, and family additions. It got to the point where we were beginning to ask ourselves if we had worked our way out of God's will or His timing and were trying to do too much. Just this morning, we got reminders that God is in control, no matter what we do. We have an illusion of control, but there's so much that's not in our hands that it's not even funny. It is with these thoughts in mind and the stresses that come with them, that I'm able to look around in my life and thank God profusely for giving me such godly people with which to surround myself. Their generosity to offer a helping hand goes beyond what humans are able to do on their own in their own sinful nature, but thanks to the transforming power of the blood of Jesus, they are able to open our hearts wide and let His love flow through them.
So if I haven't said it enough, guys: thank you so much for being with me on this journey we call life. I truly do thank God each day for each one of you. Now on to Psalm 17, and hopefully the insight will come faster, but if it doesn't I just need to remind myself to look at the title of this post!