“I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.” David delighted in the
house of God; and clearly we must explain these words as referring to the
holy worship of the sanctuary. But in order to enter into the full
spirit of the passage, we must rise from the Church on earth to the
sanctuary in heaven; to the heavenly home and the presence chamber of
God. There, indeed, is the table spread, there is the anointing oil,
there the cup runneth over; and now, through the rest of our pilgrimage,
though the journey may possibly be through the Vale of Baca, {95a} though
sometimes the soul may be bowed down, and that even when the heart is
fixed, yet in the midst of it all, and through it all, we may live in a
close intimacy with Him. We may quietly rest in His love, we may dwell
in Him and He in us; and while He gives the gracious promise, “Him that
cometh to Me I will in no wise _cast_ out,” {95b} we may resolve, God
helping us, that we will never _go_ out, and that, to the last day of our
lives, we will hold fast by Him, till at length the veil shall be
withdrawn, and the heavenly home open before us, and we realize what it
is, in the highest possible sense, “to dwell in the house of the Lord for
ever.”
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