… But God PT.1
Series Verse:
Series Verse:
Psalm 73:26 (ESV) – My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
But God…
Psalm 18:1 (ESV) – I love you, O Lord, my strength.
Psalm 16:5 (ESV) – The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.
Verse 23 gives expression not to a ‘nevertheless’ of faith nor of a defiant piety, but to a quite surprising assurance that nothing can destroy the covenant or disrupt the believer’s communion with God. – H.J. Kraus
Mind and body will eventually decay, but is that the end? If so the moment will mark the close of a relationship in which God has been a rock and a portion from the occasion of the psalmist’s visit to the divine sanctuary. But if death does not signal the end … – James Crenshaw
CONTEXT
Psalm 73:23–25 (ESV) – Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. 24 You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
Psalm 73:27–28 (ESV) – For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you. 28 But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
John 6:68 (ESV) – Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
What did Jesus say about this?
Luke
Remember whose you are, where you are, and where you will be forever! But God…