In our last session we ended with this brief comment below, a comment that cannot be left as it is.
“A second means for stoking fervor in God is being in the Word, the Bible, daily. This must come as no surprise to even the most casual Christian. God has revealed Himself in a book, and if we remain ignorant of what is contained in these pages, we will remain ignorant of God Himself, and all of our thoughts about Him will be little more than vague and vain speculations.”
We are continuing to examine ways in which we can add fuel to the fire of our faith in God, arguing from the premise that God is more glorified by His glory being seen and rejoiced in, rather than by His glory merely being seen. This should be self-evident to every Christian, but it is not.
“But when the Pharisees had heard that He (Jesus) had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test Him. ‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?’ And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.’” Matthew 22:34-40
Today’s text is Psalm 84:10, a verse that is well-known in Christian circles through the song whose chorus goes, “Better is one day in Your courts than thousands elsewhere.”
In the ESV (English Standard Version) the verse reads,
“For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.”