GOD'S COURTS ARE MY CHOICE

FRIDAY, 24^th NOVEMBER, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

 

TOPIC: GOD'S COURTS ARE MY CHOICE

 

MEMORIZE:  " For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness." Psalm 84:10.

 

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 23:6

“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the LORD Forever.”

 

EXPOSITION

The courts of the Lord is the temple, the sacred place of the worship of the Almighty. It is the meeting place between God and men. It is a place of communion with God. David, the writer of this Psalm had very great regard for holy ordinances and the courts of the LORD: he valued them above anything else, and he expresses his value for them,

 

(1.) BY PREFERRING THE TIME OF GOD'S WORSHIP BEFORE ALL OTHER TIME:

 A day spent in thy courts, in attending on the services of religion, wholly abstracted from all secular affairs, is better than a thousand, not than a thousand in thy courts, but any where else in this world, though in the midst of all the delights of the children of men. Better than a thousand, he does not say days, you may supply it with years, with ages, if you will, and yet David will set his hand to it.

 

"A day in thy courts, a sabbath day, a holy day, a feast- day, though but one day, would be very welcome to me; nay" (as some of the rabbin paraphrase it), "though I were to die for it the next day, yet that would be more sweet than years spent in the business and pleasure of this world.  One of these days shall with its pleasure chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, to shame, as not worthy to be compared."

 

(2.) BY PREFERRING THE PLACE OF WORSHIP BEFORE ANY OTHER PLACE:

I would rather be a door-keeper, rather be in the meanest place and office, in the house of my God, than dwell in state, as master, in the tents of wickedness. Observe, He calls even the tabernacle a house, for the presence of God in it made even those curtains more stately than a palace and more strong than a castle. It is the house of my God; the covenant-interest he had in God as his God was the sweet string on which he loved dearly to be harping; those, and those only, who can, upon good ground, call God theirs, delight in the courts of his house. I would rather be a porter in God's house than a prince in those tents where wickedness reigns, rather lie at the threshold (so the word is); that was the beggar's place (Acts 3:2): "no matter" (says David), "let that be my place rather than none."

 

The Pharisees loved synagogues well enough, provided they might have the uppermost seats there (Mt 23:6), that they might make a figure. David is not solicitous about that; if he may but be admitted to the threshold, he will say, Master, it is good to be here. Some read it, I would rather be fixed to a post in the house of my God than live at liberty in the tents of wickedness, alluding to the law concerning servants, who, if they would not go out free, were to have their ear bored to the door-post, Ex 21:5-6. David loved his master and loved his work so well that he desired to be tied to this service for ever, to be more free to it, but never to go out free from it, preferring bonds to duty far before the greatest liberty to sin. Such a superlative delight has holy hearts in holy duties; no satisfaction in their account comparable to that in communion with God.

 

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, I desire your presence more than any other place, take your place in my life in Jesus name.

 

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