i want to go

How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

– Psalm 84:1-2

Song reference! (you knew it was coming, didn’t you?)

How lovely is Your dwelling place

Oh Lord Almighty,

For my soul longs

And even faints For You

Oh, here my heart

Is satisfied

Within Your presence

I see beneath

The shadow of Your wings

Better is one day in Your courts

Better is one day in Your house

Better is one day in Your courts

Than thousands elsewhere

This is passion for the Lord.

I don’t know about you, but I love my Sunday mornings - I can remember feeling like I “had” to go to church and now I WANT to go!

I mean, as a humans, do we long for the place where God meets us, or do we see our place of worship as an obligation?

Sometimes it is the place we attend, sometimes it is the people that go there.

Sometimes the difference in how we feel about attending church is not in what happens at a church building, but what happens the rest of the week.

If you had a rough week maybe all you want to do is sleep in on Sunday.

Try this: make the Lord your center during the week and see how work and life in general becomes a little less “have to” and a little more “want to”.

Have a blessed day!