Worship #2

How lovely is Your tabernacle, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young-- even Your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in Your house; they will still be praising You... Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, whose heart is set on pilgrimage.



Psalms 84:1-5, www.solascriptura.com



Father, since their is no tabernacle in heaven, we know this Psalm refers to the Millennium Temple where all nations will participate in an annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The people will desire to celebrate in Your courts and worship will be exuberant. The wandering Sparrow and swallow will find comfort there and build nests for their young and Your altars will be in around the Temple, at rest, no longer seeking a home.



Worship there Father will be so spontaneous and blessed that the praise will ring to the heavens. We sometimes feel that true worship is surrounded by a quiet and pious circumstance, and it often is, but now we see a glimpse of what it will yet be.



Help us today to better see what is yet to come and teach us that our worship of You will be more and more glorious as time passes. We will celebrate victory as never before. Bless us this day, we pray, in Jesus' Holy name.

Bruce Caldwell