Psalm 23:5
5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Where will my happiness come from if God forbids so much? He forbids me from even the fantasy of more than one lady (Matthew 5:27-28), from more than a little drink (Proverbs 23:29-35), even from the very American pleasure of wanting what my neighbor has (Exodus 20:17). Should I ever come to the place where I agree that God’s right about these sins, what’s left? How do I get pleasure when He outlaws almost everything the people around me love?
We have to remember where all pleasure comes from. He invented them all. The enemy can only ever tempt us to twist God’s pleasures and in twisting reduce them. God promises to give us the food we need for life, even to load a table with it in the presence of our enemies. He makes our skin and hair soft with oil, He gives us blessings until they fill us up then over flow! We will have to trust Him while we adjust to the pleasures as they were meant to be, but when we do we’ll feel a little bit of Heaven even here on earth.
Prayer prompt: Lord, teach me to trust You for pleasure by reminding me about all the good gifts You’ve already given.
Daily Reading: Exodus 26, Psalm 76, 1 Samuel 27 (Click or tap the Verses to read them on your device)
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