Psalm 84:(1) How lovely are Your dwelling places, O Lord of host! (2) My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God……..(4) How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You…. (10) For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside…..
Psalm 84 is about a person longing and yearning to be in the presence of the Lord and the desire to dwell(live his life) there. When you read the psalm, you can almost feel the burning passion the psalmist had to worship and praise the Lord. It was his ‘one thing’. Thus, the passion translation of verse ten awesomely declares, “For just one day of intimacy with You is like a thousand days of joy rolled into one.” Sadly, in the days before Christ, a person had to go to the temple and its courts or the tent of meeting to experience the manifest presence of God. However, now that we are in Christ, we not only have unlimited access to the ‘courts’ of the Lord, we actually dwell there. Scripture tells us that we are seated with Christ in the heavenly places. How cool is that reality. My prayer for you and for me is that we would have the same desire and diligence as the psalmist described in verse 4, which says, “How blessed are those who dwell in Your house; they are ever praising you.” Consequently, now that we are in Christ, He is our sanctuary and we are His sanctuary. This truth is emphasized in verse one of psalm 84 in the passion translation, which states, “You find so much beauty in your people.They’re like lovely sanctuaries of Your presence.”
*If your wondering about the title. Psalm 84 was written by the sons of Korah