Truth #31 - God gives us bounty we should sing over! Psalm 12-14

Psalms 13:6
I will sing to the Lord,
Because He has dealt bountifully with me.

Today is pay day.   When I arrived at my office there were five checks in the mailbox.   When you are self-employed you always have to be careful of your finances.  You don't get paid for days off (your boss just doesn't give them) and you never have a paid holiday (again, tough guy to work for).   You invoice your clients and then you are at their will as to when they pay and if they will hire you back again.   Today's full mail box can be filled with dust on any given month.    Since we just invoiced for the entire fourth quarter of last year the checks are coming in and we are thankful.   It would be easy to rejoice that we have "earned" this wealth and we can now celebrate to our hearts content.    In many ways, that is what Psalm 12 is talking about, the Psalm listed just before this one.  Note what it stated to us:

Psalms 12:3-4, 8
May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that speaks great things;
Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”

The wicked strut about on every side
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

God knows that man can, will and does steal His glory.    Man thinks they are high and lofty.   To the point that the Psalm after this Psalm states the following:

Psalms 14:1
​ The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds;
There is no one who does good.

Sandwiched in the middle we have recorded the above verse ... He has dealt bountifully with me.   As I look at the pile of checks on the corner of my desk I can think of how great I am to have successfully provided to my clients something they value enough to pay me for ... or, correctly, I can rejoice in the fact that God has blessed and dealt "bountifully" with me.   That is the truth to hold to:  God deals with us "bountifully."   That bounty may not look the same for all of us.  When Elijah was by the brook during a famine, Ravens brought him crumbs to eat ... that was his bounty.   When the nation of Israel was in the wilderness, every day, God showered them with mana ... that was there bounty.   When Solomon gave wisdom to the Queen of Sheba she gave camel upon camel of wealth ... that was his bounty.   God gives bounty.  We are to sing to the Lord because of it.