V1 – It is the Lord who keeps me safe, through his mighty power. He keeps me safe from the attacks the enemy plans against me, He keeps me safe from all the works of the evil one. He keeps me safe on the road, on the highway, on the rough road, everywhere. He keeps me safe when at home, He keeps me safe when doing my daily chores . He keeps me safe in his presence. I am hidden in him… and because He hides me, then the enemy is not able to find me. He keeps me safe.
Why does He keep me safe? Because I have run to Him, I depend on Him. No one anyone else can. He has taught me to know that only He can protect. I have come to him for refuge. I am a refugee in his camp.
He teaches me proper conduct, and He teaches me to fear Him. He gives me his Holy Spirit who reminds me of his truths that I may not forget, whether I wake up or sleep.
God is my refuge! Keep me Safe Oh Lord in you…. For you are my God and my creator. No one hides from you. Blessed are those who run to you and not from you. Blessed are those who do not quieten your voice when you speak to them concerning life’s directions.
V2 – My soul joins with David in crying to Him—- You are my master, my life is in your hands, Make me faithful to you for then I will be safe in you.
I am a servant: do with me what you want. I want to be hidden in you… doing your precepts oh God
V3 – Godly people are an example to be emulated. These are those who love his word and walk in his precepts. Those who love righteousness and hate sin, they do not love the world but keep their treasures in heaven and their hearts in his presence always. They are careful to hear his direction and to follow the path of life that He leads.
Philippians 4:9 NLT – Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.
Do you know any truly godly men and women? Love them and follow their example even as they truly follow Christ.
These men and women encourage us to walk with Him and to love Him.
V4 – There is nothing but trouble for anyone who drifts, is drifting or has drifted or who has always been away from God.
There is no other safe place apart from your presence Oh God.
There is no peace away from your presence.
There is no rest away from you.
There is no discipline and Godly chastisement away from God.
Having God is having everything good. Having his holy spirit is the best experience for life, it needs to be greatly desired daily.
V5-6 – The Lord is the inheritance of his people, those who put their trust in him and call upon him.
The land He has promised them and which He gives them is pleasant more than anything else human beings know. It not only flows with milk and honey from his presence but flows and produces much more than we can think or imagine. It is the unending spring of life, it is indescribable to the human mind. Those who see it long to be there, and those who are there do not want ever to be away from it because it satisfies their deepest desires, those which they have never known. It draws them in and they sink in worship and as they worship, they burst with unexplainable radiance from God. This land is from the Lord, is in the Lord, it is the Lord. The Lord is the inheritance of his saints.
V7-8 – No one is shaken when He is in his presence. No one who has God by their side is afraid of anything. Because He has the mighty Lion, the conqueror of all Kingdoms, the one who defeats everything by his mighty power.
My soul must and shall bless the Lord my God, because in his great mercies toward me, He speaks his instruction to my heart. He causes me to hear him and to love him. Even at night, I hear his word…. “Do this..” “Don’t do that”. Even at night, my heart which is being trained in his presence questions me… “Is that pleasing to your master and Father?” “Does that honor your savior?”
My heart experiences in Him what my mind and my words cannot properly express. I revel in having communion with Him… the God of my salvation.
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V9 – After experiencing this, David comes to this point where He simply exclaims…. “No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice. Greek version reads and my tongue shouts his praises. Compare Acts 2:26. My body rests in safety.”
V10 – He will not leave those who trust in Him and who have given themselves to Him to go to the dead. He will give them eternal life.
In this section, David is also speaking prophetically about Jesus. He would not rot in the grave but would be resurrected to Life. And this happened… He rose on the third day.
V11 – He shows the way of Life and grants us joy in his presence and the pleasures of eternal life… living with him forever. In his right hand are pleasures forever more.
Psalm 16:11 KJV – Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Psalm 16:11 TLB – You have let me experience the joys of life and the exquisite pleasures of your own eternal presence.
Anyone who thinks they know what pleasure is because of experiencing the mere joys that come from worldly things does not know the meaning of pleasure. Even I cannot yet understand the deepness of the true pleasure which is to experience Him and to enjoy his presence, Nothing can ever be compared to that.
If there is every a pleasure scale, then it cannot measure the pleasure of God’s presence. The pleasure from his presence blows that scale, and the scale itself cannot even qualify to be a the smallest value
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!