DAILY?READINGS: Joshua 11-12; Isaiah 8:5 to 9:7; Luke 24:13-35
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. Psalm 84:10
The word “doorkeeper” is really “to sit at the threshhold” which was the lowest place. The splendid tents of the world: fame, fortune, and fun, are all temporary, and can never satisfy a redeemed soul. We could very appropriately put it this way, “God’s worst is better than the devil’s best.” A thousand days of the world’s pleasure cannot compare to one day in God’s presence. —Robert E. Surgenor
It was the sight of Thy dear cross,
First weaned my soul from earthly things,
And taught me to esteem as dross,
The mirth of fools and pomp of kings. —F. Whitfield