October 31, 2017 - - Psalm 16:6-8, 11 True Pleasure

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;

surely I have a delightful inheritance.

I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;

even at night my heart instructs me.

I keep my eyes always on the Lord.

With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

You make known to me the path of life;

you will fill me with joy in your presence,

with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Psalm 16:6-8, 11 NIV

Ravi Zacharias, Oct. 2017, Public Question and Answer time:

When Tiger Woods went the way of all flesh, and sinned as he did the media asked him a question, the most ironic question I have heard of the media:

How could you lie to so many for so long?

(RZ: Pause and think about it. Now that came from a journalist and I thought I had heard it all.)

Woods responded to the journalist by saying: Because I had first lied to myself.

RZ: I would love to have had a follow up question: “What did you lie to yourself about? Did you lie to yourself that you would never get caught, or did you lie to yourself about the fact that in doing what you did, therein you would find your happiness?

RZ:The real poisonous lie in our system is to think you can violate the sacred boundary lines God has set. This is simply not true. Pleasure, unbounded by sacredness, will leave you emptier than before.

O God, the true and only joy of Your people, the hope of Your elect, blessed be Your Name. Thank You for life that You have given in Jesus Christ--life that is stench in the nostrils of this world and the fragrance of all that is good to those who believe. By Your Spirit help those who believe in Jesus to forsake the world and its lies about what is good and what is fun so that believers can embrace true life and true pleasure in the sacred life offered in Jesus Christ. Amen.