Better is one day in your courts
than thousands elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
(Psalm 84:10)
Is the above true of you?
Would you rather spend one day in God’s house than 378,269 in the very best place this fallen world has to offer? Or, put another way . . .
Would you rather:
(a) spend a day with God praying and reading the Bible or
(b) get a free 100-year pass to Disney World?
Would you rather:
(a) be God’s janitor or
(b) be the CEO of sin?
Lots has been written on this lovely little Psalm. Here’s how The Message paraphrases it:
One day spent in your house,
this beautiful place of worship,
beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches.
I’d rather scrub floors in the house of my God
than be honored as a guest in the palace of sin.
Here’s another take, from David Crowder’s thought-provoking book Praise Habit:
We have not been promised palatial housing,
but we have been promised his presence.
We often find ourselves in spaces
that seem the last spot on earth
we would have picked to insert ourselves,
engaged in things that we never
imagined ourselves having to do,
but we can know this comfort:
that wherever we are,
we are in the very residence of God
and this is sweeter and greater
than anywhere without Him.
The bottom line?
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