Priorities!

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand [anywhere else]; I would rather stand [as a doorkeeper] at the threshold of the house of my God Than to live [at ease] in the tents of wickedness. PSALM 84:10 AMP

Life is all about options. Whether you discuss the spiritual or the physical, life is all about choices. Every day God gives also offers us choices, and whilst we have power to make the choice, the eternal consequences of our choice will run our lives thereafter.

Before you make the choice, consider the end. The Psalmist here must have seen both sides, for him to conclude on the better options. Same for me: I must not take someone else's word for it; a personal experience will teach me a lot better than what other people's stories will tell me.

One day in God's courts teaches me dependence. One day in God's courts teaches me absolute trust in the One who holds all in place. One day of God's favour will recover for me what a year of labour cannot guarantee.

I see here a focus on relationship at the expense of service. The psalmist saw God as a personal God, one he could refer to as 'my God'. Can I truly say the same thing about God? In fact, does God know me as his own? When I have him as 'my God', when I know who I am and whose I am, service is a pleasure. Whether I am visible, celebrated, known or appreciated become secondary, as long as God knows me as his own. I see nothing as beneath me, as long as glory is given to God through me. Is this the same for you? His time of favour is here.