Better is One Day

Psalm 84:1-12
[1] How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
[2] My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
[3] Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
[4] Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
[5] Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
[6] Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
[7] They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
[8] O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
[9] Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
[10] For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
[11] For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
[12] O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

A day in the presence of God is better than 1000 years anywhere else! We have a wealth in Christ Jesus that is great than anything else in this world. The world can’t compare to Jesus Christ!

We can have bad days, bad weeks, bad years maybe even bad decades. But, the Psalmist is telling us that even one day in the church, one day in the courts of the Lord, one day in the house of God is better than the best day in the world (the tents of wickedness).

The worst day on the ark - it would have been pretty smelling on the ark. It would have been difficult to live on that ark for all that time. However, one bad day on the ark was better than the best day outside the ark.

The pleasures of this world are for a season.

Hebrews 11:25
[25] Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
[26] Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.