Daily Devotions

Ps 84 :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.This is a Psalm I read quite often in hospital visitation. I read to those who are ill, sick, some are old and some are dying. It is a fact that as we walk through this world we get weaker and weaker over the years. We slow down, even simple sickness has a greater affect upon us, we grow weaker and weaker in this world.
Yet take note of verse 7 above. It does not have to be that way for the Christian. We can go from strength to strength, we can get stronger as we go alone. Yes our bodies will not be what they once were. We may move a little slower but we are a little wiser as well. And yes we can be stronger in the Lord. Caleb told Joshua when he was 80 that he was the same as he was when he was 40. How could that be? He was stronger in the Lord and that more than made up for what he had lost physically.
Christian, get stronger today.

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