How lovely is thy dwelling place.....Can we really say this? What a challenge to be able to say that with all our heart. So many things in our lives fight to take Gods place but ultimately we are made for a relationship with our creater and we are only truely happy in his presence...following his highway. What a great thing that God is everywhere and his presence is with us day and night, in happiness and sadness. His presense is lovely in every moment of life...just like its great to have a friend/spouse/someone you love with you in happy times and in sad, so no matter what life brings it is indeed truely lovely to have our saviour with us...to be in his dwelling place no matter what.
Psalm 84
84:1 How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!
2 My soul longs, yes, faints
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to the living God.
3 Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O Lord of hosts,
my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
ever singing your praise! Selah
5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion. [2]
6 As they go through the Valley of Baca
they make it a place of springs;
the early rain also covers it with pools.
7 They go from strength to strength;
each one appears before God in Zion.
8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
9 Behold our shield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed!
10 For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
the Lord bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does he withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
12 O Lord of hosts,
blessed is the one who trusts in you!
nb- this is a lovely song based on this psalm on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeitZ0y2EQM
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