How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Happy are those who live in your house, ever singing your praise. Happy are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. As they go through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools. They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion. (Psalm 84, NRSV)
Have you ever been homeless?
It is not an easy thing to take. A few years ago we were in kind of the situation we are now. Only we did not have jobs, nor the savings we did have recently (thanks in part to Dave Ramsey!).
At that point in time we were living with some friends, because they had a house big enough for the 2 of them and the 5 of us. we were very fortunate. But then they were adopting and needed to do a home study, and with us there it was not going to work…
So for a while we wondered where we wold live. We had not found a call, and we needed to be out of the house we were living in quickly so they could start the family we had been talking about for a long time. So we were almost homeless. We did find a place to stay and were taken care of.
And you see that is the point of the psalmist today. We need to rest and live in the house of the Lord. Does the swallow or the sparrow fret about where they will live? No they find a place, and if you are resting in the Lord, He will take care of you, just like He provides for the sparrow and the swallow!
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