Dwell in Him

It's amazing to me how God's word lines up with what's going on in my life.  My friends' loss of their home has been laying very heavy on my heart.  And today, I opened up my Bible to Psalm 84.  The first verse says, "How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty."  Verse four then follows that up by saying "blessed are those who dwell in Your house."  A little bit later, in verse 5, it says that "blessed are those whose strength is in You."  To me, that really hit home.  Even if we have lost our own home, we can find strength in God and rest in His home.  He will take care of us.  That's hard to believe when I look at photos of the devastation in Alabama.  Entire neighborhoods are completely flattened, reduced to piles of rubbish and strewn lumber.  Hundreds of people have been killed, sometimes entire families.  How can God take care of someone through that?  The simple answer to that is....I don't know.  But He can.  He who began a good work in me will be faithful to complete it (Philippians 1:6).  Even though life doesn't make sense, that's a promise that we can take to the bank.

Psalm 84:1-7

How lovely is your dwelling place, 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, 

LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. 

As they pass through the Valley of Baka, they make it a place of springs; 

the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.