Better is one day in Your courts than thousands elsewhere.
Even when we feel like we can overtake everyone and everything else on earth, even when everything around us seem to be going our way, even when we feel like we are on the tip-top of the world, it does not compare to one bad day in the presence of God.
Life without God, even though it may be that we are aware we do not even feel God, is still something to be thankful for. The tears maybe more prevalent, the questions will be more angry, we can only see frustrations in our actions, and God will be blamed. And there are many people who have experiences such as these, and they wallow in self-pity and misery. They lament about how distant God is from them, how they do not have an identity, how they feel God is not speaking to them or giving them directions in their ministry, career, education, and life in general. But what is to be praised is that GOD is still in the picture! God is still being sought in all these areas of their lives! In fact, God is sought!
“Remember the wonders he has performed, the miracles and the rulings he has given, you children of his servant Abraham, you descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones.” Psalm 105:5-6
The very fact that we are His chosen ones is something to focus on in itself, not that God is distant, or that He does speak to us, or that our lives are a complete misery. But if we re-focus our attention to our God, we will remember the wonders He has performed, the miracles and rulings He has given , and how he chose us to be His children, and for Him to be our Father.
If there is any confusion about who we are or what we are, then know this: we are servants of the Lord, soldiers of God, and co-heirs with Christ. Know that servants and soldiers and co-heirs serve upwards to something. Know that is not what we do, or what He does, but simply WHO HE IS. Know that it is not for Him to work towards us, although that is happening all the time, but for us to work towards Him, be patient and wait on Him, be disciplined for Him. And know that He must increase, and we must decrease (John 3:30).
“Better is 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." Psalm 84:10
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"Even when we feel like we can overtake everyone and everything else on earth, even when everything around us seem to be going our way, even when we feel like we are on the tip-top of the world, it does not compare to one bad day in the presence of God."
- is there even a bad day in the presence of God? If God is present, even in the darkest of day we're going through, i don't think we'll see it as a bad day. :)
oh ya, no pictures. =(
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