10. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. Of course the psalmist means a thousand days spent elsewhere. Under the
most favorable circumstances in which earth’s pleasures can be enjoyed, they
are not comparable by so much as one in a thousand to the delights of the
service of God. To feel his love, to rejoice in the person of the anointed
Saviour, to survey the promises and feel the power of the Holy Ghost in
applying precious truth to the soul, is a joy which worldlings cannot
understand, but which true believers are ravished with. Even a glimpse at the
love of God is better than ages spent in the pleasures of sense. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents ofwickedness. The lowest station in connection with the Lord’s house is
better than the highest position among the godless. Only to wait at his
threshold and peep within, so as to see Jesus, is bliss. Note how he calls the
tabernacle the house of my God; there’s where the
sweetness lies: if Jehovah be our God, his house, his altars, his doorstep, all
become precious to us. We know by experience that where Jesus is within, the
outside of the house is better than the noblest chambers where the Son of God
is not.
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