Bible Reading and Reflections

Net Bible First Edition
Psalms 16:1-8

A prayer2 of David.

16:1 Protect me, O God, for I have taken shelter in you.3
16:2 I say to the Lord, “You are the Lord,
my only source of well-being.”4
16:3 As for God’s chosen people who are in the land,
and the leading officials I admired so much5 –
16:4 their troubles multiply,
they desire other gods.6
I will not pour out drink offerings of blood to their gods,7
nor will I make vows in the name of their gods.8
16:5 Lord, you give me stability and prosperity;9
you make my future secure.10
16:6 It is as if I have been given fertile fields
or received a beautiful tract of land.11
16:7 I will praise12 the Lord who13 guides14 me;
yes, during the night I reflect and learn.15
16:8 I constantly trust in the Lord;16
because he is at my right hand, I will not be upended.


My Reflections:

How often did we give praises to God? I think only few. Most of us are preoccupied of our “busy life” or of the things around us that we often neglect and forget to give praises God. Some of us only give praises to God on Sundays and sometimes we’re too lazy to go to church. It really hurts to face the fact that though we’re Christians already laziness is still the number problem in us and that’s what the devil uses to us. Let us be like David praising God in everything that he does.