"How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young-a place near your altar, O Lord Almighty, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you." ~Psalm 84: 1-4
This beautiful psalm echoes with the deep longing of a spiritual pilgrim whose soul craved to be in God's courts. The psalmist's journey was not to reach a place but to meet a person. His whole body and heart longed for the living God.
On your pilgrimage through life, don't settle for anything less than the living God himself. You will be tempted to turn aside to lesser things, distractions, false panaceas or even diluted theologies of God. But what your body, heart and soul long for is one thing, which cannot be substituted or replaced, the living God himself.
"But in the account of the bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Issac, and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive." ~Luke 20:37-38
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