Psalm 84: 1-2, 10a
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.
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.
My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.
In old studies of the tabernacle in the wilderness and the temple--courts--in Jerusalem, my thoughts had centered on "the Lord's dwelling place with His people". But also--with Solomon and Paul--rebelled against that thought:
1 Kings 8: 27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
Acts 7: 24
The God who made the world and everything in it.....does not live in temples made by man.........
Today (with thanks to RSB note) seeing the Lord's tent/tabernacle/temple/courts as the place--out of His created universe, all that is His because He made it--in which He chose to reveal His presence to the people.
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