Psalm 16

Summary: Even many of us as Christians have a sneaking suspicion that eternity might not be quite as pleasurable as the life we have now–perhaps the endless boredom of an eternal church service! In this Psalm, David reveals himself to be as much of a pleasure-seeker as any of us, but what’s critical is where he seeks his pleasure; namely, in God himself. David here outlines a number of the benefits he receives in this life from knowing God, but the Psalm’s pinnacle is at the end where he reveals his anticipation that the pleasures he knows now are but a small foretaste of the pleasures he’ll know forevermore in God’s presence. This morning we delight ourselves in the assurance that eternity is a place of unknown and unending pleasure. The deepest joys and excitements we’ve known in this life are but a tiny taste of the pleasure of being forever in God’s perfect presence.