Title: How Lovely Is Your Tabernacle
Contents How lovely is the tabernacle of the Lord (Psalm 84:1-12)
Sometimes, after we lose something precious (health, material, person, etc.), it is only then that we realize how precious it is. Theologians like Calvin today recall the precious blessings that the author of Psalm 84 enjoyed when David, who was expelled from the temple due to Absalom's rebellion, went to and from the temple, looking at the temple from the hill overlooking the temple in Jerusalem and seeing the sparrows and swallows nesting in it. I assumed it was recorded. How should we relate to the temple today? I would like to learn a lesson focusing on Psalm 84.
These blessings are promised in the temple, but why can't we enjoy these blessings? ① It is because they do not love the church passionately. Today the psalmist confessed that one day in the courts of the Lord is better than a thousand elsewhere (verse 10). Do you want to enjoy the blessings promised in the temple? I hope you will love the church with this earnest heart. ② Because our worship service was too formal and hypocritical. You are not blessed just because you go to church, pay tithing, and serve with an office like everyone else. Those whose hearts have become stone fields after listening to the Word for a long time, those who are neither cold nor hot, and those who have lost the feeling of salvation and are left with only the abominable hypocrisy of the Pharisees cannot enjoy this blessing. Let's live with the blessings promised through the church by offering beautiful spiritual worship in spirit and in truth.
The blessing that the praise never leaves your lips at the Presbyterian Church, the blessing of being able to overcome the world and possessing the surplus power, the blessing that the highway of Zion opens and all your problems are answered in the midst of worship, and you walk through the valley of tears. I pray that you will become the main character of the precious blessing that makes that place a place of spring.