Psalm 16:1-2-Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
2 I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
I have no good apart from you.”
From the days of an unbeliever, I remember the times God brought people in my life who suggested to me my need for the Lord, and maybe you have, too. But the thing that “turned me off” was that I felt that they challenged my ability to make good for myself apart from needing God. My pride wanting to prove I didn’t need anyone!

I believe the Psalmist David, like many of the people who share our need for God learned this truth from experience. That our desire to do good for ourselves is the delusion that we can be victorious in life without God. That we have some inherent “good” we can prove without needing God at all. But this is precisely why we end up not taking refuge in the Lord…

Until we see our effort as never good enough, because there is no good in it, we will forsake the Lord as our refuge and trust our ways until they prove us wrong. Our ways have nothing good in them because they derive from a selfish and sinful nature. Promoting our perceived goodness and glory, not God’s who we were created for.

So if you find yourself slacking in taking refuge in God, it is because you probably think you have good apart from Him, and things are fine. But we could end up like David, who began to rest in the comforts of God, and brutally abused them. Because he had to learn that he is desperately wicked without God. Which probably enabled him to come to this conclusion in Psalm 16.
In His Love, Ld