THERE IS NO LOSS WITH GOD

Psalm 84:10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness

A very wild trade off is presented: standing at the threshold of the house of God as a door keeper or enjoying the lush luxury and splendour found within the dwelling of the wicked. The writer of this Psalm, made their choice clear- to choose God all the way. The verse captured in verse ten can read “I would rather face danger in proximity to God than to be comfortable in the places where sin is celebrated and God has no place.

Of course, that choice will mean you have to give up pleasures and comfort, because you cannot have it all. Yet, that is the cost of your decision. However, for other men to face the same choice and opt to stay with God means there is value in that. Even if there was initial loss, there was still gain in the long run.

Peter in Matthew 19:27 asked Jesus a question along the lines of ‘what is the gain in abandoning all that seems valuable to follow you.’ And to this Jesus responded ‘you never really lost anything’.
No one truly teams up with God and loses. David will write in Psalm 37:25 “Once I was young, and now I am old. Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned or their children begging for bread.”

Beloved, God does not forget, and He is not unjust. There is no real loss if indeed you make the decision to choose him above all else because He is a rewarder.

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