“Blessed are those you choose and bring near to live in your courts! We are filled with the good things of your house, of your holy temple.”
Psalm 65:4 (NIV)
The good things of your house, of your holy temple, of your gospel.
Have we ever considered the good things that come to us from belief in the gospel?
The gospel is what brings God near to us- for it is belief in the gospel that brings His Spirit to us.
His Presence lives inside of us – His Spirit dwells within us - we are God’s house.
His comfort, His counsel, His love, His wisdom, His joy, His peace, His strength.
The blessings that we receive are hundredfold, they are truly abundant.
David lived in a time when God’s Presence dwelt between the cherubim on the atonement cover of the ark, a place that was forbidden for David to visit, and yet in this psalm, David lists the wonderful blessings that accompanied God’s Presence. This was the age before the blessing of all blessings, the fulfillment of all promises, the grace upon grace who came to set His people free, to save them from their sins, to baptize them in the Holy Spirit- the Person of our Lord Jesus Christ.
If David had a reason to praise the LORD in the morning and the evening, then friend - those of us who experience the blessing of the everlasting presence of God in our person, have a thousand more reasons to praise Him.
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