Psalm 84 (KJV): Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere

From Psalms

Psalm 84
(For the director of music, According to gittith. Of the Sons of Korah.  A psalm.)

¹How amiable are thy tabernacles,
      O LORD of hosts!

²My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth
      for the courts of the LORD:
my heart and my flesh crieth out
      for the living God.

³Yea, the sparrow hath found an house,
      and the swallow a nest for herself,
      where she may lay her young,
even thine altars,
      O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
⁴Blessed are they that dwell in thy house:
      they will be still praising thee.             Selah.

⁵Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee;
      in whose heart are the ways of them.
⁶Who passing through the valley of Baca
      make it a well;
      the rain also filleth the pools.
⁷They go from strength to strength,
      every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

⁸O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer:
      give ear, O God of Jacob.           Selah.
⁹Behold, O God our shield,
      and look upon the face of thine anointed.

¹⁰For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,
      than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹For the LORD God is a sun and shield:
      the LORD will give grace and glory:
no good thing will he withhold
      from them that walk uprightly.

¹²O LORD of hosts,
      blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Blessed is the man who trusts in thee...for he will be given a day in your courts.  And better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere.  Certainly any day in the past year, while sober with the help of God, was better than all of my achievements in the 10 years before that living in my addiction.  Each day in the past year came with the gift of prayer, through psalms.  Each day came with the joy and love of my family.  Each day came with the clarity of sobriety.  Each day came with the strength that only God can provide.  The value of these gifts cannot be measured in this life.  Meaning they can't be measured in money or time or any worldly good.  These are treasures that only God can bless us with.

That is what it means to this addict to spend one day in the God's court.  No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Thanks for letting me share.