I know-that I know-that I know!

 Monday morning, just a few weeks before Christmas and my list of to-do and to get done is long, but here I sit pondering, heart racing because God reveals when we seek. I’ve been doing an Advent reading that I found on IG. At first I was like this is strange readings for Advent, but daily I’m amazed. Today was Psalms 16. I flipped to it and had lots of notes jotted down beside it. First I’d written “Messianic Psalm” beside it then I’d written a different interpretation beside it as well. Think this was chapter that I was reading when I was trying to put down some boundaries when boundaries didn’t seem very Christ-like, another post for another day. Today, I pondered on David’s words and how his words literally pointed to Christ!! 

Read this so many times but then when I read it in a place of Advent it just changes things. First, this chapter David wrote is just plain comforting. 

“Lord, you are my inheritance, my cup of blessing. You guard all that is mine.” v.5

Then, “ I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice. My body rests in safety. For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your HOLY ONE to rot in the grave. You will show me the way of life, granting me the JOY of your presence and the pleasure of living with you forever.” v8-11 (

Woah!! First how sweet it is to be a believer and know that God is always near. I can’t even imagine the hopelessness of not knowing that fact. Life is hard, people are cruel, circumstances are sometimes bleak but the one thing, the absolute one thing that I know-that I know -that I know -is no matter how bad things may seem -my God is right next to me-He knows me, He sees me and He wants good for me. Now His good and my good are sometimes completely different and that’s where my faith comes in…knowing His is better than mine. 

But the absolute mind boggling, joy-filling best part of this chapter is the fact that David mentions the Holy One and that the Holy One would not be left to rot in the grave and neither will I. Reading this and then referring to Acts 2:25-28 and then 13:35-37 and reading where Peter and Paul both recite Psalms 16 and explain that David was referring to Jesus Christ so many years before just does something to me. This is what makes it a “Messianic Psalm” because it was quoted and referred to Jesus’ Resurrection. This just ignites a fire in me in knowing with out a doubt that the Bible is Gods Word and what it says is truer than true and that things mentioned in the Old Testament are mentioned again in the New just cements so much in my heart, mind and spirit. But God!!!! 

Maybe it’s the season, I’m always excited about the birth of my Savior but the older I get and the closer I get to Heaven I think the excitement is just knowing that God is so very real to me, and when I get confirmation like this today it excites me in knowing that I know -that I know -that I know…He is real, He is alive and He is active and the best part is either I see Him come back or He sees me running to Him. Knowing that the Word of God shows us He is to be trusted in what HE says because it all comes to pass, this should really make a believer in the most cynical. 

Lord, thank you for your Word, thank you for letting me discover new things, even tho I’m familiar and have read things before -just knowing You are like-‘let’s give this girl a little fire today to ignite her heart for this season of Advent, and for Me.’ I prayed before the Lords Supper just yesterday that you God, would give me more excitement about Christmas , excitement about You, and loving others like You, and then this morning You give me this-something that’s in front of me always, but today I read it with new eyes, and a new desire for You. Lord, I pray that maybe me sharing this will fan the flames for excitement for someone else for Advent, for You, for your Word. Thank you for letting the OT and NT be revealing in so much about You, about Jesus and Holy Spirit and how faithful You, the Triune God really are. Give me more of You. Amen. 

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