I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
Psalm 16, including this verse, is a prophecy spoken by the Lord through David by the Spirit about His own Son. It foretells the incarnation, the life of self-sacrifice, the cruel death, the resurrection, the ascension, and the exaltation at God's own right hand. Its detailed fulfillment in Jesus of Nazareth establishes His claim to be the true Messiah. The picture given was above human conception and above the thoughts and expectations of Israel and even of the prophets.
The verse belongs to that prophetic picture of Christ's inner experience. It voices His faith in the Father's love and cooperation amid trials and temptations from birth to the cross. In this way the psalm gives insight into His feelings and struggles in His inmost soul.
As He grew up and reason expanded, He blessed the Lord for counsel. He took the Father as His standard of excellence and the Father's law as the test of every temptation. His heart instructed Him in the night seasons to keep Him steadfast and unmoved.
As part of Psalm 16, cited with Isaiah 53, the verse helps show that Christ died and was buried, soul and body. The psalm is connected with Christ's entry into hades, the realm of the dead, and His resurrection. Through that resurrection He can raise His people from the dead.
The verse shows that God gives counsel and instructs the inner person in the night seasons, so that instruction can come in the night. A night vision can impress on the heart the danger of a prayerless life. Such a vision warns that a prayerless person is on a ruinous course and may carry others toward destruction, and it urges him to stop and turn back. That nighttime counsel can be resisted, as when God spoke to a woman in the night seasons but she reasoned away death and judgment and questioned God's existence.
Psalm 16, including this verse, is a prophecy spoken by the Lord through David by the Spirit about His own Son. It foretells the incarnation, the life of self-sacrifice, the cruel death, the resurrection, the ascension, and the exaltation at God's own right hand. Its detailed fulfillment in Jesus of Nazareth establishes His claim to be the true Messiah. The picture given was above human conception and above the thoughts and expectations of Israel and even of the prophets.
The verse belongs to that prophetic picture of Christ's inner experience. It voices His faith in the Father's love and cooperation amid trials and temptations from birth to the cross. In this way the psalm gives insight into His feelings and struggles in His inmost soul.
As He grew up and reason expanded, He blessed the Lord for counsel. He took the Father as His standard of excellence and the Father's law as the test of every temptation. His heart instructed Him in the night seasons to keep Him steadfast and unmoved.
As part of Psalm 16, cited with Isaiah 53, the verse helps show that Christ died and was buried, soul and body. The psalm is connected with Christ's entry into hades, the realm of the dead, and His resurrection. Through that resurrection He can raise His people from the dead.
The verse shows that God gives counsel and instructs the inner person in the night seasons, so that instruction can come in the night. A night vision can impress on the heart the danger of a prayerless life. Such a vision warns that a prayerless person is on a ruinous course and may carry others toward destruction, and it urges him to stop and turn back. That nighttime counsel can be resisted, as when God spoke to a woman in the night seasons but she reasoned away death and judgment and questioned God's existence.