So many of the ways God is sovereignly directing our lives are intangible, or they are simply

imperceivable to us, but that's not always the case.

There's one way God sovereignly directs our lives that is very tangible and concrete,

as John Pepper explained in his recent sermon on Psalm 16 titled, The Path to Full and

Lasting Pleasure.

Here's a pastor, John, said on Psalm 16 verse 7.

He is our treasure, and now we're going to see that he is our counselor, verse 7, he goes

one step further in exulting in what God is for him.

God is not only refuge, treasure, sovereign, but now he's counselor.

I bless the Lord who gives me counsel in the night, also, my heart instructs me.

Now that's not a small add-on, and the reason I say it's not a small or insignificant add-on

to refuge, sovereign, and treasure is because trusting God is your counselor affects how you

experience God as your refuge and as your treasure and as your sovereign.

Let me illustrate what I mean by that.

God is a refuge in part by the way he counsels us.

God's being a refuge for you is not automatic, it's not mechanical, it's not like you

pay zero attention to his word in his counsel, and you simply find yourself safe.

It doesn't work like that.

If you find yourself in danger of harm, danger of a sin, danger of some absolutely foolish

way of life, and God comes to you with his counsel, he's telling you how to find refuge.

Don't go there, don't do that.

So his counsel is the means of his becoming refuge for you.

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