https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/psalms-27.html. Holiness. 27:4 Dwell. the beauty and glory of God and He wanted more. In his temple, i.e. We see that through the virtue of this sacrifice God is so reconciled to us, as to “behold no iniquity in us [Note: Numbers 23:21. He wanted to look upon God and because He knew that He but only to see? Copyright StatementThese files are public domain.Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. First, Is He cold and distant? A great many people say, ‘One thing have I desired,’ and fail in persistent continuousness of the desire. And what is it that maintains and spreads religious principles in the world? He desired this “one thing,” and he would still “seek after it.” Desires are the aims of the heart, and determine its character. Its services are replete with the Divine beauty. All Rightes Reserved, Larry Pierce, Winterbourne, Ontario.A printed copy of this work can be ordered from: The Baptist Standard Bearer, 1 Iron Oaks Dr, Paris, AR, 72855. when he fled because of King Saul was trying to kill him. And to inquire in his temple - Or tabernacle. The meaning of the passage is, that he would wish to seek instruction, or to obtain light on the great questions pertaining to God, and that he looked for this light in the place where God was worshipped, and by means of the views which that worship was adapted to convey to the mind. else. THE fervency and sincerity of his desire. It is a real desire, not feigned. This of course is like the last line of the Shepherd Psalm, a strong indication of Davidic authorship. At the sound of their voices the doorposts II. 1. One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD And to meditate in His temple. And to inquire in his temple - Or tabernacle. See in Hebrews 8:5 ; Hebrews 9:2; Hebrews 11:23-24. The harmonious wholeness of the Divine character. Elsewhere he says, “I had rather be a doorkeeper,” etc. "[8], "And to inquire in his temple." He appears, by some gross imagination or other, to suppose that God could be enclosed by wood and stones.” But if we examine the words more carefully, it will be easy to see, that his object was altogether different from a mere sight of the noble building and its ornaments, however costly. God is with us and will never leave us nor forsake That the Lord was his light, his salvation, and the strength of his life. And now tell me, if there be, if there can be, any greater request to be made? Constant and abiding--he has desired it, and still he “will seek after” it. he entered heaven itself, Robert Mossom. but only to hear news; a vain fancy. A master-passion. Let all our affection be bound up in one affection, and that affection set upon heavenly things. (F. L. Further, in the house of God man sees God in a right light: sees Him as He wishes to be known. 1. My flesh and my heart may fail, The soul’s desire. } Verse 4. God is love; which constitutes His supreme beauty, and comprises all that is virtuous and morally excellent in His nature. He saw and communed with God through them. The reference here is to the beauty or loveliness of the divine character as it was particularly manifested in the public worship of God, or by those symbols which in the ancient worship were designed to make that character known. In my opinion, however, it appears a simpler interpretation to view the words as meaning, that although David was banished from his country, despoiled of his wife, bereft of his kinsfolk; and, in fine, dispossessed of his substance, yet he was not so desirous for the recovery of these, as he was grieved and afflicted for his banishment from God’s sanctuary, and the loss of his sacred privileges. Indeed, this "one thing," that David desires, is in effect that unum necessarium that Christ speaks of in the gospel; which Mary makes choice of there, as David doth here. Without it there can be no wisdom, But still more urgent and important is it for us to know and understand our common Father. ), The affection of David towards the place of God’s worship. The cause of this figurative language is, that the tabernacle, and afterwards the temple itself, bore a symbolical character, represented the connection between God and His people who dwelt with Him spiritually there; compare the proof of this in Part III. Have I desired -- what we cannot at once attain, it is well to desire. We did not bring it into the world ourselves, and we could not produce it ourselves. Every building may be a house of God if there be a child of God in it. But holiness is, and “God is glorious in holiness.”. That most misunderstood doctrine of the Atonement accounts for most.

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