Whence Comes Our Hope

So many of us seem to be at sixes and sevens these days and dwell in the din of the marketplace. We long for calm, we long for peace, especially peace of soul. How can we shut out the noise long enough to even think straight?

We need time for prayer and meditation. We need time to contemplate what it is we really need and want. We need time to find out what the Lord wants from us.

Here in this beautiful Psalm 84 we see what the Lord promises us, in the next life if not now. For those who walk with Him, who trust in Him, we are promised living in His lovely dwelling place where even a day as a doorkeeper is better than a lifetime of being in the tents of wickedness. 

Turn everything off for fifteen minutes, take a deep breath and relax with this comforting word.

Psalm 84

How lovely is thy dwelling place, O Lord of hosts!

My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in they house, ever singing thy praise!

Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

As they go through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.

They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion.

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob!

Behold our shield, O God; look upon the face of thine anointed!

For a day in thy 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.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor.

No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.

O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in thee!