BETTER IS ONE DAY. A day near God is better than a thousand days experiencing anything else (verse 10). To know God and have even the lowest position in life (“a doorkeeper in the house of my God”) is infinitely better than living in luxury without God (verse 10). This is not hyperbole, for “no good thing does he withhold” (verse 11) from those who trust in him (verse 12). The New Testament will reveal the unimaginable scope of this. If he did not begrudge us his own Son, “how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:32). He does this for the sake of his
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