Today’s Devotion
Topic: Where Will You Rather Be?
Text: Psalm 122: 1
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. Amen
The Psalmist wrote a song saying, “One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek Him in His temple” (Ps 27: 4). He also said, “My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.” (Ps 84: 2)
And this is why: he had noticed, and actually mentions his observation to the Lord. He writes, “Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you. As they pass through the Valley of Baka (or weeping), they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools. They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.” (Ps 84: 4, 6-7)
That is why every opportunity or invitation to the house of the Lord brought him so much delight. He told the Lord in adoration, “How lovely is your dwelling place, LORD Almighty!” (Ps 81: 1 ). “Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere” (Psalm 84:10a). What about you, Precious One? On a wonderful Sunday morning like this, where would you rather be?
You know that in the presence of our Lord, there is fullness of joy; and at His right hand, are pleasures forevermore (Ps 16: 11). Where would you rather be?
In a dry and barren land where all have become like sheep, scattered on a hill; stranded and without a Saviour, if you hear a Saviour at a distance saying, “You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart” (Jer 29:13), what would you rather do?
At that uncomfortable place where you do not do the good you want to do, but the evil you do not want to do; when you hear the voice of a preacher say, “Repent then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord” (Acts 3: 19), what will you do?
In an era where it’s become increasingly obvious that those who dwell in the secret place of the Most High, abide under the shadow of the Almighty, where would you rather dwell?
Meditate on this and say to the Lord; “Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young– a place near your altar, LORD Almighty, my King and my God (Psalm 84:3). That’s where I want to be. Seeking your face, touching your grace. In the cleft of the rock; In Your presence oh Lord.”
See you at church.
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