I LOVE having our Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan to go through the Bible with every year! I love that we go through the Old Testament in chronological order, and the four Gospels and Psalms and Proverbs twice! I love that the Word of God is God-breathed and profitable for my spiritual growth (2 Timothy 3:16-17)! I love that, though I have read the Bible through every year for over 30 years, I learn something new every single day! I love how pertinent and timely the Word is for every situation! I love how understanding the Old Testament causes the promises of the New Testament to be REAL and so logical! I love how, though we have a new Covenant (Hebrews 8:6), based on better promises, the promises of the Old are FOR me, or made better! The Psalm for today is one example! Psalm 84:4-7:
4 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are those who dwell in Your house and Your presence; they will be singing Your praises all the day long.Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! 5 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. 6 Passing through the Valley of Weeping (Baca), they make it a place of springs; the early rain also fills [the pools] with blessings. 7 They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power]; each of them appears before God in Zion.
Spending time in His presence is so incredibly easy for US! We do NOT have to travel for miles to get to a building, and then only be able to watch someone else go into His presence FOR us! We ARE the current Temple of the Living God, as born again believers, because HE lives IN us (1 Corinthians 3:16)! How wonderfully blessed we are! Have YOU meditated on that lately? Doing so will cause you to maintain a continually grateful and thankful heart before Him! Spending time in HIS presence also carries THIS promise! Verses 10-12:
10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand [anywhere else]; I would rather be a doorkeeper and stand at the threshold in the house of my God than to dwell [at ease] in the tents of wickedness. 11 For the Lord God is a Sun and Shield; the Lord bestows [present] grace and favor and [future] glory (honor, splendor, and heavenly bliss)! No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. 12 O Lord of hosts, blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts in You [leaning and believing on You, committing all and confidently looking to You, and that without fear or misgiving]!
AMEN, AMEN, AMEN! How awesomely blessed we are! Thank YOU, JESUS! Here is Hillsong with "Blessed":
Shalom in Him!
