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Monday, May 27, 2013

In our last study we looked at the first part of Psalm 84 where the Psalmist describes his “heart cry” for an encounter with the living God. Today let’s look at the middle verses of the Psalm where he talks about his “heart set.” Verse 5 reads, “Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.” 

Some feel David wrote this Psalm while in hiding during the rebellion of his son Absalom. This would account for his reference in verse 6 to passing through the Valley of Baca. Baca means weeping. He was going through a traumatic time.
 
He wasn’t in his palace. He wasn’t running the country from his throne. He wasn’t able to go to the temple to meet with God. But his “heart cry” drove him to “set his heart on pilgrimage.” His heart was set on getting back to the altar where he could enjoy the dwelling place of His Lord, the Almighty.
 
He didn’t know how long he would walk in the valley of weeping, but he believed somewhere, sometime, God would cause springs to well up in the valley and autumn rains to cover the valley with pools of refreshing water. God would enable him to go from strength to strength. Ultimately he and those with him would return to God in Zion.
 
With that hope in mind he offers a prayer expressing his “heart set for pilgrimage”: “Hear my prayer, O Lord God Almighty; listen to me, O God of Jacob. Look upon our shield, O God; Look with favor on your anointed one.”
 
He asked God to satisfy his “heart cry” because his “heart (was) set on pilgrimage” to encounter the Living God.
 

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