Verse for the Week

We have started a new practice around here. We have a verse for the week that will help keep me focused and keep me in an attitude and heart of prayer. I have been falling short in this area lately, and am hopeful that this will make a huge difference.

Here is the verse for this week:
Psalm 84:10-11
Better is it to spend one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield
He bestows favor and honor
No good thing does he with hold
from those whose walk is blameless.

I have been meditating on this verse for a day now. It is easy just to say, yes, I agree with that. But when I started really pondering it - I thought about what this is really saying.

If it meant I would only have ONE day in eternity I would choose to spend it in your presence oh Lord because ONE day with you is far better than having a thousand or a million somewhere else. I would rather have the lowest job possible, that of a doorkeeper, who just lets people come into the house of God and never actually live there than to have the highest dwelling in the place of the wicked. I will meditate more on the second half of this as the week goes on, but for right now I have been impacted by the first part greatly. It reminds me that I need to really desire to be with Him, to desire to please Him, desire everything about Him and His Kingdom and let go of everything else that might keep me from it. I need to want Him so much that I can cast off every wicked thing.