The psalmist longed for “the courts of the Lord” (v. 2). If you had to be absent from church for an extended period, what would you miss the most? Why?
God’s people pass through painful places occasionally. How might that experience bless them? How might it make them a blessing to others?
The psalmist valued a day in the house of God more highly than “a thousand elsewhere.” Why should believers place a higher value on worship and fellowship than on a life of comfort in partnership with the wicked?