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I feel you could read all of Psalm 84, but these two verses back to back just soak in what they're saying Psalm 84 10

One day in the courts of God is better than a thousand elsewhere. Just pause there. Do you live like this?

Do you live to spend time every day in the presence of God the picture here in Psalm 84 is talking about being in the temple

where the glory of God dwells the Psalmist never could have imagined being the temple of the Holy Spirit.

What we read in the New Testament about our lives for all who trust in Jesus.

We don't have to go to a place to spend time with God. We walk and the presence of God is Holy Spirit lives in us

so to get alone with God and just be with him today. That's better than anywhere else you could go today.

Anywhere else in the world and not just today you could spend a thousand days anywhere else in the world and one day in the presence of God would be better.

I think that for many followers of Jesus we almost have a hard time imagining this because we are missing out on the reward that's found and just being alone with God.

I exhort you, I encourage you prioritize spending concentrated time alone with just you and God.

Just spending time with him, worshipping him, listening to his word, praying in all the ways we pray,

praising him, repenting, sin and asking him for things in our lives and others lives,

yielding our lives to him, just spend time with him. Better is one day, those moments alone with him and thousands elsewhere.

I'd rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God and dwell in the tense of wickedness.

There is nothing in this world, no one in this world that compares to God, which is why I read verse 11 also.

Oh Lord God is a sun and shield, what a picture, a sun, God is a sun and a shield for you and me.

Oh he is light in our lives, apart from him there is darkness, he is a sun and a shield he's a protector.

Our defender, our guide, our deliverer, the Lord bestows favor and honor, you spend time with God.

You're experiencing favor and honor from God and no good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.

All good things he pours out on generously gives to all those who seek him, who worship him,

who spend time with him and then who walk, who live out of the overflow of his presence in you.

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