Psalm 84:1-2 ESV
How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!
My soul longs,yes, faints for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
The psalmist knows and appreciates the presence of God.
His soul longs and faints....and his heart and flesh sing for joy!
So he is talking about something much more than an academic
understanding.
Also there is no cerebral heartless dogma crushing his spirit.
In expressing his feelings, what he is sharing with the reader
is his own genuine experience of living in the love of God.
Psalm 84:3 ESV
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.
The love which motivates two people to want to be together in marriage,
is closely related to the love which unites the three persons of the Trinity.
A family in the love of the Trinity is a biological reality, encompassed by
social cohesion in a union which involves attraction and commitment.
This family is an entity in the community which forms the body of Christ.
Psalm 84:4 ESV
Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
ever singing your praise!
Joshua 24:15 KJV
.......as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Psalm 84:5 ESV
Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
Psalm 84:12 ESV
O Lord of hosts,
blessed is the one who trusts in you !
The gentle presence of God enfolds us,
and always has enfolded us.
But now may we be drawn more and more
into loving awareness of dwelling in Your presence,
to be more consciously trusting in You
and more and more may we find our strength in You.
Psalm 84:10 ESV
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.
AMEN.
How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!
My soul longs,yes, faints for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
The psalmist knows and appreciates the presence of God.
His soul longs and faints....and his heart and flesh sing for joy!
So he is talking about something much more than an academic
understanding.
Also there is no cerebral heartless dogma crushing his spirit.
In expressing his feelings, what he is sharing with the reader
is his own genuine experience of living in the love of God.
Psalm 84:3 ESV
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.
The love which motivates two people to want to be together in marriage,
is closely related to the love which unites the three persons of the Trinity.
A family in the love of the Trinity is a biological reality, encompassed by
social cohesion in a union which involves attraction and commitment.
This family is an entity in the community which forms the body of Christ.
Psalm 84:4 ESV
Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
ever singing your praise!
Joshua 24:15 KJV
.......as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Psalm 84:5 ESV
Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
Psalm 84:12 ESV
O Lord of hosts,
blessed is the one who trusts in you !
The gentle presence of God enfolds us,
and always has enfolded us.
But now may we be drawn more and more
into loving awareness of dwelling in Your presence,
to be more consciously trusting in You
and more and more may we find our strength in You.
Psalm 84:10 ESV
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.
AMEN.
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