Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

84:10-12 Blessed Are Those Who Trust in the Lord. The final section describes the person who trusts in the Lord: he sincerely prefers one day in God's courts to a thousand anywhere else; and he prefers even the lowest task of service in the house of my God to any gain he might have if he were to dwell in the tents of wickedness (i.e., to fashion his life in opposition to the covenant, perhaps along the familiar lines of the Gentiles). This is the person who finds God to be a sun and shield (he gives the light of life, and protection), upon whom the Lord bestows favor and honor (such a person will not trust in these or turn them into a source of pride). Those who walk uprightly are those whose faith is genuine, which leads to a life that aims at doing God's will; no good thing does God withhold from them, because they are living in his light. The chief good thing, in this psalm, is to be welcomed in the temple. The faithful can enjoy other things only insofar as they express the life of the upright. Such people are blessed indeed!