Psalms 16:7. I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel:
"He has talked with me, checked me, rebuked me, instructed me, encouraged me: ‘I will bless Jehovah, who hath given me counsel.’" That does not, at first sight, look as if it were one of the choicest of blessings, yet the psalmist mentions it immediately after he has declared that the lines have fallen unto him in pleasant places,-as if he felt that one of the choicest blessings of the covenant was that God had been his Counsellor.
Psalms 16:7. My reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
"God makes my heart, my conscience, my inmost being, to give me instruction. What a blessing that must have been to David! A man who has no inward monitor, because he has stifled his conscience, so that it no longer holds him by the ear, and speaks with him, is poor indeed; but blessed is he who has his God and his conscience to counsel and instruct him.
Psalms 16:7. I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel:
"He has talked with me, checked me, rebuked me, instructed me, encouraged me: ‘I will bless Jehovah, who hath given me counsel.’" That does not, at first sight, look as if it were one of the choicest of blessings, yet the psalmist mentions it immediately after he has declared that the lines have fallen unto him in pleasant places,-as if he felt that one of the choicest blessings of the covenant was that God had been his Counsellor.
Psalms 16:7. My reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
"God makes my heart, my conscience, my inmost being, to give me instruction. What a blessing that must have been to David! A man who has no inward monitor, because he has stifled his conscience, so that it no longer holds him by the ear, and speaks with him, is poor indeed; but blessed is he who has his God and his conscience to counsel and instruct him.