Psalm 84:10-12

"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. For the Lord is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you!"

Oh how many have chosen to dwell in the tents of wickedness to gain earthly power and comfort; only to one day lose everything and be cast into utter darkness and eternal fire. What will a man give in exchange for his soul? What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? Love not the world…for the world is passing away along with its desires. Father, have mercy on us. We so often become shortsighted. O that we would live for eternity and not the passing pleasures of the world. Forgive us, Father, of our blindness. Open our eyes that we may see the things eternal. Help, O God, your servants that we may be wise and live for eternal joy. Let us seek your favor and honor. Indeed the one who trusts in You is blessed!

THE GLORY OF THAT LIGHT by Amy Carmichael
“I could not see
For the glory of that light.”
Let the shining of that glory
Illumine our sight.

Things temporal
Are transparent in that air;
But the things that are eternal
Are manifest there.

Jesus our Lord,
By virtue of Thy grace,
In the shining of Thy glory
Let us see Thy face.