Blessed are those whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; In whose heart are the highways to Zion.
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… and it keeps us even more connected. Psalm 84, five, blessed are those whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. We're just passing through, we're passing through. And at the same time, we are doing what God has called us to do in the time that we have. Number two, make yourself at home. Have you heard that? Make yourself at home. trust Jesus and make yourself at home in him. Let your heart be his home. I love that in verse 23. Jesus says, if anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him. How comforting is that? As we are giving God space and making our home with him, he's making his home with us. And I don't know how that works, but it's comforting and it's beautiful. He says, you trust God, trust me. Make your home with me because I'm making your home for you. …
… her young. Even your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They will still be praising you. Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, whose heart is set on a pilgrimage. All right, we'll just stop right there. You get the point. This psalm is a psalm of just ongoing praise, prophesying breakthrough. And in the middle of it is this weird little verse that talks about birds laying eggs. And it has nothing to do with the whole psalm, except that it does. He's declaring the greatness of the Lord. He says, even sparrows find a place to lay their young on your altar. And then it goes back into giving praise. What's the point? The presence is supposed to be that place where things are birthed. You study the presence of the Lord throughout Scripture, you find that the sons of Asaph wrote this passage, Psalm 73, where they were frustrated. They were frustrated because it looked like everything the wicked did prospered, everything they did was stunk. …
Again, the consecration is set forth—though I have little time to notice it—by the different parts of the victim being offered to God. You will observe that the deepest feelings of the Christian are to be with God—that the inwards and the fat of the kidneys were to be burnt upon the altar. Thus the richest and fullest emotions of the Christian's mind and heart are to belong to God, for the fat and marrow were to be burned as well. And the Christian's greatest strength is to be the Lord's, for the right shoulder was to be offered as a wave offering, and then to be consumed with fire. We are to give God our inmost thoughts, our deeper passions, our greatest strength. "Blessed is the man whose strength is in You!" Some people can call loud enough to wake up a town when they are in their business, but when they come to pray you can scarcely hear them. But I would have a Christian never so much, or so fine a man as when he is serving God. Give the world, if you will, the ends of your mind, soul and strength—but give God your whole man, your inward and your outward life, every part and power and passion, strung to its greatest height and all devoted to Him! …