Yearn

Psalms 84 "How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almight!  My soul yearns, even faints for the courts of The Lord."

How did King David know that God's dwelling place is lovely?  King David was world rich, family rich, politically rich; but he talks about God's dwelling place as being the place to be.  Where the Living God is, King David wants to be. To yearn for something to a point of your heart and flesh crying out for it requires separation from the place.  King David had experienced the living God, seen the dwelling place and now he wants to return.

"Hear my prayer, ...Listen to me O God...Look upon your redeemed with favor...O God.  Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere;"

That verse is a song today.  I heard it hummed almost 8 and 1/2 years ago to this day.  I read verses from this chapter in church last Sunday and was reminded of when the verse was made true to my heart.  Daniel was traveling to heaven and I was honored to accompany him to the door.  He never spoke only motioned and hummed much of the way.  I am sure he was carried the last little bit.  It was days later that I realized what song he was humming.  It went so well with the verse he signed to me as I watched and prayed; "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him."  I Corinthians 2:9  Better is one day in your courts than a thousand  elsewhere.

King David had everything you could want on earth.  We continue to try and give our children all they could need or imagine so they might grow up to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with their God.  King David talks in Psalms 84 of a place better than all that he has, which he compares to less than a sparrow's home.  I know what King David and Daniel had and their testimony separated by thousands of years, makes clear that dwelling with the living God for even a moment is better than all they had here on earth.

As I sat down to do my devotions today I was overwhelmed with where to begin.  Where do I meet God first, what do I do.  I pulled out my pile of books and notecards spilled everywhere.  God's word scribbled on every piece.  When I came upon Psalm 84 and I Cor 2:9 God reminded me that He yearns for me to dwell where He is Living.  I know that this true and possible because of the testimony and reality of God's Word.  I want to carry Him around with me everywhere I go and live all my moments where He is.  Lord fill me with Your Word that I might dwell in Your courts all the days of my life, starting today.