As Christian we need to have this perspective. We often think, oh no, I have to go to church again tonight. I think the Psalmist perspective was right on. Better is one day in your courts than thousands elsewhere. Better serving God and doing what He wants than being anywhere else.
So we can serve and be in God's courts by: Nehemiah 10:39 "“We will not neglect the house of our God.” The house of God in the old testament is an actual building but after Jesus came we have a new idea of the church.
What is this new church I am talking about? Eph. 2:19 "Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household." This is saying that we, the Christian are the church. So we are not to neglect the house of God means that we need to not neglect the church, the people God brings to our buildings.
What we learned about perspective is that we are not to neglect God's people by ourself getting in the way. We are to want to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of our lives. Psalms 27:4 "One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple."
It is so hard to have a perspective like this but God calls us to have His perspective. I say it to the youth so many time but I will say it again, God doesn't just want the piece of you that you want to give; He wants all of you. Having the perspective that being in God's courts one day is better that thousands else where is giving all of you to God.
