Ps
84:10 (ESV) 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
dwell in the tents of wickedness.
NOTE: The tents of
the wicked are tempting. The fares appear to bring pleasure, but the cost is
too high. The price is felt within our souls, for as David says elsewhere,
"against you, you only have I sinned, and done what is evil." Sin is
against God. It strikes at our spiritual nature and tears us down from within.
It is a fleeting pleasure. It is a twisting of something good into evil.
Afterwards the cost is extracted upon our lives. A good pleasure has the cost
paid beforehand. It is the result of doing the right thing in the right way. It
does not tear us down, but it builds us up. The pleasure seems similar on the
outside, but the difference is great. God protect me from the shortcuts and
from evil steps. I want to enjoy your pleasures from your hands. I don't want
to sin against you.
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