Psalm 84:10 (NIV)
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

When David looked back and he said, "I would trade a thousand days just for one day in Your presence", he didn't have to go there. He had to learn some hard lessons. Love isn't love until you've lost it. Success isn't success until you've lost it. Acceptance isn't acceptance until you've lost it and then you want it and then you realise that you were the person that lost it.

How often I've had to sit down and counsel someone that is totally broken because they've lost the marriage that they really love and the first thing I have to do is bring them back to, why did they lose it? What did they do to maintain it? Why did that person go? Why did they find love in the arms of another? So many people want you to bring their marriages back together without changing or to bring their ministries back together and let them brutalise the body of Christ again. It was God that removed you for a reason. That person ran for a reason. You've got to look inside of yourself first, ouch.
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