January 19, 2020
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Reading along with us in Psalm? Here’s today’s reading:
Psalm 84 (ESV)
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.
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.............Continue Reading
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Lot of joy
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to the living God
May I have this reaction when I praise Him.
“Lord Almighty, blessed is the one who trusts in you.”
Psalms 84:12 NIV
https://www.bible.com/111/psa.84.12.niv
I love this Psalm because I have the same desires. How I desire to be in God’s presence to sing his praise. “My heart and flesh sing for joy”! One single day in his court is better than a thousand elsewhere!
All of this should inspire us to put all of our trust in the Lord.
There were a few selah moments in this Psalm for me. My soul yearns, even faints for the courts of the Lord…..That’s a pretty passionate description of the level of desire David had for God. How often that doesn’t describe our relationship with God, but it should….what keeps me from getting there…selah…..”Blessed are those whose strength is in the Lord, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage….The Jews were commanded to go to Jerusalem at certain times of the year….there they would find the temple, the location where the presence of God was…to get there they would go through various valleys, one of which being the Valley of Baca, a place of weeping actually, an arid place, but when our strength is in the Lord it becomes a place of springs, of supply, of provision and joy…..selah…..And “no good thing does He withhold from those whose walk is blameless…” What a promise to rely on when we pick up our cross and die daily to the flesh, to self will, to pride….selah…
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!