Psalms 84

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM LXXXIV.—What inexpressible beauty gracious souls see in holiness and in holy work! Fellowship with God in Christ, in his ordinances, is the delight, the desire, of their soul. The meanest abode, with his presence and ordinances, is preferred to a palace without them. Not only faithful ministers, who attend to their work, but all who study a life of close fellowship with God, and faithful service of him, increase their joy in the Lord, and their strength for his work. If our heart be once engaged, we shall walk with pleasure in God’s ways, and in attending his solemn ordinances. However troublesome the way to heaven be, not one of those who truly set out ever faint or miscarry. And O the inexpressible glories they there enjoy, in the immediate vision and presence of God! If he be our own and our fathers’ God, we shall never seek him in vain. If he be our Shield, we shall be safe from fear of evil. If our confidence towards him be founded solely on the merit and intercession of Jesus his. I pointed, he cannot but behold us in mercy and love. Infinitely preferable is fellowship with God in his ordinances to all the pleasures of sin or sense that can be enjoyed on earth; and happy are those who have God ALL IN ALL to them, bestowing all on them; and who, in all cases, depend for ALL they need only upon him