The Beauty of His House

“How lovely is Your tabernacle, O LORD of hosts!

My soul longs, yes even faints for the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.” (Psalm 84:1, 2)

The place where God dwells is lovely! His house is beautiful. The psalmist in our text is overcome with longing to be in the house of God. In the Old Covenant, this spoke of a longing to go to the Tabernacle of David and meet with God. The Tabernacle was a physical place where the LORD was worshipped day and night, incessantly. The psalmist calls this place lovely.

The earthly house of David was merely a shadow of the eternal, heavenly house of God. We know from Scripture that the Lord dwells within His people (1 Corinthians 6:19), in the praises of His people (Psalm 22:3), and in heaven. Each of these truths calls us to meditate upon them, for they are wonderful and life-transforming. Today, I want to invite you to meditate (think about, mull over, talk about) His heavenly house.

How do we do that, when we can’t see heaven? Well, the answer is, we can see heaven! God has put in His Word for us descriptions of heaven that we are meant to read and understand. The Holy Spirit will enlighten our eyes (Ephesians 1:18) to see what His dwelling place looks like. Revelation 4 and 5 give us the clearest, most vivid description of heaven, particularly the throne room of God, in the entire Bible. I have personally read these chapters a hundred or more times in my Christian experience and I can tell you firsthand that this practice has helped me to meet with God more consistently and to have more revelation of who He is and my calling in light of that.

Today, simply ask the Lord to show you heaven. Then, read Revelation 4 and 5 and receive the answer to your prayer. In the coming days, we will be exploring these two glorious chapters, verse by verse. Together, we will experience the life-changing power of beholding God!

“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the LORD, are being transformed into that same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the LORD.” (2 Corinthians 3:18)