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Psalm 84:1-12
We invite you to join us for worship each Sunday morning at 9:30. You can download our service on iTunes or tune in for “The Good Word” each day on AM 1230 WSAL or on Hoosier Country 103.7 FM just after 8am. Last week we began our study in this Ps. where David expresses his intense desire to meet with God in His Temple and worship Him as the God of creation. We learned that David’s desire to worship consumed his life. He says in verse 2, “my soul longs yes, faints for the courts of the Lord.” We also learned that because of David’s intense desire to worship, God then developed him into a man after God’s own heart! Let’s turn our attention now to the last half of this great Psalm of worship. Let’s begin with:
- DESIRE DURING WORSHIP 8-9. The Ps. begins with an intense desire to worship; now we’ll turn our attention to the proper desire during worship. Everyone comes to worship for a particular reason. The true man or woman of God desires to encounter God personally during worship. For others to desire is nothing more than to be seen. Notice first there is the desire for an audience with God. The whole attitude of these two verses reveals to us David’s humility and submission before God. David asks God to “hear my prayer; give ear, look on the face of your anointed.” All those phrases are requests of a servant or slave to their master asking the master to take notice of the servant. In the context of the whole Psalm David wants God to know that he (David) is grateful, and humbled that God would allow him, a sinful man, to come before a Holy God in personal worship. Is that how you view this time? David not only desires an audience with God, he so desires acceptance by God. If we were to read the hundreds of verses throughout Scripture that teach us we are in fact, accepted by God – we would continue to see that to be accepted by God we must be saved, and living a godly life and lifestyle every day. One of the most important truths we must remember about our relationship to God is that it is founded on and grounded in the perfect, holy righteousness of Christ alone! So as you have kept your appointment with God this morning, do you have in the depths of your heart the assurance that right now where you are as you are, you are accepted by your Heavenly Father? Finally, notice in V. 9 David prays that God will be aware of David’s presence in the Temple. David understood of course there was nowhere in all of creation he could escape from the presence of God. David writes in Psalm 139 exactly that! In light of our salvation we must live with an intense desire to meet with God in worship all day every day and to meet with him in corporate worship every Lord’s day. Now let’s see David’s
- DELIGHT IN THE TEMPLE 10-12. To even a casual student of the Word these are familiar verses. David shares 3 truths with us that reveal the delight that David experienced because of his intense desire to worship God in His Temple. In verse 10 a comparison is made. 1st – notice how short, is the period spent in the Temple – just one day; compared to a 1,000 elsewhere. In the second comparison notice the place in the Temple; David would rather be a doorkeeper, a menial task for one who stood only at the entrance to the Temple without actually being admitted; rather than to dwell, or live, in the tents of ungodliness and wickedness. In v. 11 we see God’s completeness manifested. Notice David tells us the LORD God is a sun- or a source of light to help us find our way through the dark world of sin. John tells us in the first chapter of his gospel, “Jesus was the life, and the life was the light of men.” To the true man or woman of God, He is not just sun and light, He is a shield to go before them and prepare their way protecting them from the destruction their enemy the devil wants to inflict upon them.
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