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Psalm 84

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.

The joy of singing God’s praise, gathered with siblings in Christ, is hard to beat. As a young person growing up in church, I thought this psalm meant that I needed to be excited about the building the congregation gathered in – but it’s not about the building (lovely though it may be). As a not-so-young person today, this psalm inspires the orientation of my heart and the use of my time. Gathering with others on the Lord’s Day, or any day, is like finding a home in a palace of time. 

All the psalms about pilgrimage to Zion/Jerusalem/the temple remind me that we keep moving toward the day when God will make all things new.

Pastor Lindean Barnett Christenson 
Christ the King Lutheran Church, Bozeman, Montana