Psalm 27: What David Wanted, We Have Today in Christ Jesus

"4One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple." (Psalm 27:4)

I used to read this passage and think: "How am I going to get to His temple?"

I later learned that it is essential to read everything in the Bible through the Cross, to recognize that there is an Old Covenant (Hence the first part of the Bible is called the Old Testament), and then the New Covenant, i.e. the New Testament.

Today, we are no longer under the blood of bulls and goats, but cleansed by the blood of Jesus, the blood which keeps on cleansing (1 John 1:9).

First, David says that He wants to dwell in the House of the Lord forever.

Today, because of Jesus, we ARE the Temple of God, because His Holy Spirit dwells in us:

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" (1 Corinthians 3:16)

and

"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" (1 Corinthians 6:19)

and also

"And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." (2 Corinthians 6:16)

We don't seek Him out anymore. He has sought us and brought us to Himself!

Then David says that he wants to behold God's beauty. That word in Hebrew is "naom", which also means favor and pleasantness, as well as beauty.

Today, we have all of those things, because we are in Christ, and Christ is in us!

"3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." (Ephesians 1:3-6)

We have His Son's beauty:

3Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth." (Psal, 110:3)

Today, God sees us as His own Son!

"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4:17)

We do not have to go to the temple of the Lord to enquire of Him, either.

We have Jesus, our Great High Priest, ministering on our behalf at the right hand of God the Father all the time now!

"14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

"15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

"16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." (Hebrews 4:14-16)

and

"Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." (Hebrews 6:20)

Reading God's Word has become a real treasure for me, especially because when I read the Old Testament, I see Jesus, and I see how the wants, desires, and fears in the Old Testament have been fulfilled or removed in the New.