There is no substitute

Psalms 73:23-26

23. Yet I am always with you;

I'm always in your (God's) presence....

"Where can I go from your Spirit?

    Where can I flee from your presence?

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If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

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If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

    if I settle on the far side of the sea,

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even there your hand will guide me,

    your right hand will hold me fast." 

Psalms 139:7-10

You hold me by my right hand.

My right hand is familiar and stronger.

I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
    With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Psalms 16:8

24. You guide me with your counsel.

When reading and meditating on your Word I find the way I should go. Your Holy Spirit guides and directs me.

and afterward you will me into glory.

HALLELUJAH! Following your Word leads me to eternal life with you!

25. Whom have I in heaven but you?

No One!! 

I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;

    apart from you I have no good thing.”

Psalms 16:2

And earth has nothing I desire besides you.

There is no substitute for you Lord. "I don't want to gain this whole world and lose my soul."-TM

 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law,but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

Philippians 3:8-9

26.My flesh and my heart my fail.

My spirit is willing but my flesh is weak. 

My soul yearns, even faints,

    for the courts of the Lord;

my heart and my flesh cry out

    for the living God.

Psalms 84:2

but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

 I can do nothing without him. It is God and God alone who is my strength, my rock! He is my inheritance.

Photo taken by Madison in Rwanda 2012