Psalm 16:11 You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for ever more. I. AN ENCOURAGING PROMISE OF DIVINE DIRECTION. Consider the text in reference to God's answer to prayer. Has not everyone the greatest need of Divine direction and heavenly illumination in his passage through life? What untiring diligence, unceasing watchfulness, and persevering prayer is every Christian constrained to use in his hourly converse with the world! How solicitous should every Christian be that, as every step of his life is leading to the path of death, he may be so guided by Divine counsel as to be directed to the path of life, to the path of glory, honour, and immortality, even eternal life. II. THE HAPPY AND BLESSED RESULTS ARISING FROM ATTENTION TO THIS DIRECTION. An admission into His presence, where there is fulness of joy. It is the presence of God, our heavenly Father, which constitutes this fulness of joy. Fulness of joy can only be consummated in the other world, But what tongue can unfold the felicity of that state? III. THE ETERNAL DURATION OF THE HEAVENLY GLORY. This it is which invests the subject with the most momentous and overwhelming magnitude. (Nat. Meeres, B. D.) Parallel Verses 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. |
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