Psalm 16

A miktam* of David

Keep me safe, O God,

For in you I take refuge.

I said to the LORD, “You are my lord;

apart from you I have no good thing.”

As for the saints who are in the land,

they are the glorious ones in whom is all my

delight.

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.

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

you have made my lot secure.

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant

places;

surely I have a delightful inheritance.

I will praise the LORD, who counsels me;

even at night my heart instructs me.

I have set the LORD always before me.

Because he is at my right hand,

I will not be shaken.

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;

my body also will rest secure,

because you will not abandon me to the grave,

nor will you let your Holy One see decay.

You have made known to me the path of life;

you will fill me with joy in your presence,

with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

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*So my Bible has awesome little foot notes at the bottom of pages.  Some of it’s alternate translations, Hebrew/Greek words that are used, other times it’s *not used in earlier transcripts*.  So yeah it’s pretty awesome.

Anyway, is there anyone who might, possibly, maybe want to tell me what a miktam is?  I have a nice little foot note for the word, but no translation, making it useless.  It says, “Title: Probably a literary or musical term”  Like I said, no translation of the word….and I’m curious.

But that’s not the reason I put up the Psalm.  I’m looking up Bible verses on faith, and my search led me to this Psalm, but instead of just reading the verse I ended up reading, and highlighting most of, Psalm 16.  If I just wanted to know what a miktam was, well I’d just ask for that.   But yeah, pretty awesome Psalm right?  I didn’t put in the verses, but it’s 11 long so….yeah.

~Amanda~

HI, I’d like a small McJesus with a small side order of McGod please…

Yeah it sounds stupid, right? But think about it, whether you are a Christian, or you know Christians, this seems to be true. We live in a nation that revolves around doing everything Bigger, Better, and FASTER. Most of the time this means our lives become so caotic that something has to take the back seat. Now, somewhere in our lives we want to put Jesus, but we want him just thrown in there, we want it more convenient for us.  So we get the McJesus.

Now, I’m sure you know that we are all guilty of the whole fast food thing. Personally, I love fast food. And we all know that when we go to McDonald’s to get our fix, we want the large everything special. But this doesn’t seem to be the case with the McJesus. Somehow our faith has become one where not only does Jesus take the back seat, he’s squeezed in there tight. We want the one hour Sunday Jesus; the look at me I’m such a good Christian, God/Jesus. But when it comes down to it, most of us don’t want God/Jesus in our lives Mondays, nor Tuesdays, and forget about Wednesdays, and my goodness Thursdays, what about them Fridays, and the big one, party night, Saturdays, you can forget it. We choose to ignore the “follow me,” that Jesus says to his disciples.

“Come, follow me…” Matthew 4:19  “Follow me…” Matthew 9:9 “Come, follow me…” Mark 1:17 ”Follow me…” It’s there why ignore it?

And don’t forget that big law, the biggest one in all the scriptures, the numero uno of the laws…”Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul with and all your mind.” Matthew 22:37

How can we show God we love him if we push his gift to us out of the way. How can we tell people “oh you have to go to Church and do this and that…” If we ourselves don’t do it?

We as a Christian nation need to stop making God and Jesus fit our plans and schedules. We need to stop feeding our souls with the junk food faith that we have. We need to feed ourselves that Good, Big, Filling meal of Faith that God has to offer.

~Amanda~