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Psalm 84:1-2

"How lovely is Your tabernacle, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God."


His heart and his flesh. All of him is reaching, yearning, longing. I love this scripture. To me it's the most beautiful picture of David's affection for His personal King and Lord. As David describes his undying, passionate, relentless love for God his voice rings with such desperation for the presence of the Lord. Nothing else will do. Not only does he adore His Lord, His whole being, his mind, his will, his emotions, his body and his heart longs be in the same vicinity as God's being. It is not enough for Him to just know Him and love Him, the psalmist painfully yearns to be in the place where God is (His tabernacle). Even his flesh, the non-heart part cries out. His arms and legs and muscles and bones, faints for the presence of the Lord. Such abandonment and devotion to the presence of the Lord.

Have you ever been so in love with someone that it's painful? It's a constant yearning, a constant drawing towards them. Every fiber of your being is in agony- desperate for their company, their love and their aroundness. You want that one and only so much, the thought of being apart from them makes your weary with grief. Then you are together and you look at them, and you still can't get close enough. You are with them, yet somehow a part of you still misses them... it's crazy, radical, unrealistic, unpractical L-O-V-E!

This God is living and more real than your hand stretched out in front of you. He is so perfect and beautiful that being any where else but in the place where He is, is too much to bare. You must be near Him. You must be a part of Him. He is lovely.

Cry out to Him now. Go on, say how much you love Him and need Him out loud. No one will hear but Him (and you), and He will love it. He is right there. He is so close.