A single day 

in your courts 

is better than a thousand anywhere else! 

I would rather 

be a gatekeeper 

in the house of my God than live the good life in the homes of the wicked.

For the Lord God 

is 

our sun and our shield. He gives us 

grace and glory.

Psalm 84:10-11 NLT

Perhaps today we just need some encouragement.

While the song writers may have been looking to an actual place, they are alluding to somewhere else, somewhere more permanent.

A place where there is no more separation between us and God.

A place where He will completely be our sun and our shield. 

A place where His Grace and His Glory will be known and experienced in ways that we can only imagine. 

What's going to be different in His courts, His place?

We will be fully known, fully accepted, and completely loved. 

The striving, the questions, the insecurities, the not enoughness will be at an end. 

Shalom, rest, peace will be ours.

We will know we are Beloved. 

#psalms

#psalm84

#thenowandthenotyet

#hopeishere

#rest

#youareBeloved