“You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” (Psa. 16:11) Joel says this about being in God’s presence, “I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who CALLS on the name of the Lord WILL BE SAVED.” (Acts 2:19-21) And have forever pleasures!!! The path of life is being united to God such that we’ll NEVER BE WITHOUT HIM.
The path of life is what God makes known to us — not as a trail to follow, but as a PROMISE TO EMBRACE.
That’s the glorious shift in the 16th Psalm. It begins with our faith in God and ends with God’s FAITHFULNESS TO US. He will not abandon us. No He won’t! HE WILL NOT. He makes known to us the path of life. Life beyond the grave. Life that ushers us into His presence where there is fullness of joy, at His right hand where there are WONDERFUL PLEASURES FOREVERMORE.
-Bill Stockham