Let Me Stay! 我不要离开！
Dexu Xia
One thing I ask from the Lord . . . that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. Psalm 27:4
As they made their way toward their car, Zander escaped his mother’s arms and made a mad dash back toward the church doors. He didn’t want to leave! His mom ran after him and tried to lovingly wrangle her son so they could depart. When his mother finally scooped four-year-old Zander back into her embrace, he sobbed and reached longingly over her shoulder toward the church as they walked away.
Zander may merely have enjoyed playing with friends at church, but his enthusiasm is a picture of David’s desire to worship God. Though he might have asked God to thwart his enemies for his own comfort and security, David wanted peace to prevail so that he could instead “gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple” (Psalm 27:4). His heart’s desire was to be with God—wherever He was—and to enjoy His presence. Israel’s greatest king and military hero intended to use peacetime to “sing and make music to the Lord” (v. 6).
We can freely worship God anywhere, for He now dwells within us through faith in the person of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:16; Ephesians 3:17). May we yearn to spend our days in His presence and to gather corporately to worship Him with other believers. In God we find our safety and our greatest joy.
When have you experienced a passionate yearning to worship God? What keeps you from experiencing that more frequently?
Father, You’re my delight and my joy. I long to worship You without distraction or interruption.
Read “Pure Worship.”
有一件事，我曾求耶和华，……就是一生一世住在耶和华的殿中。—诗篇27篇4节
当赞德和他母亲一同朝着停车场走去时，赞德却突然挣脱母亲的手，转身冲向教堂的大门，因为他根本不想离开！他母亲追上他，试着对他好言相劝，想要尽早离去。但当母亲好不容易将4岁的赞德搂进怀中，准备离开时，赞德靠在母亲的肩上哭泣，还伸长着双手渴望要回去教堂。
赞德或许只是还想要继续与朋友一起在教堂玩，但他的渴盼让人想到大卫渴望敬拜上帝的情景。尽管大卫曾为自己的平安稳妥而请求上帝击溃他的敌人，但他最希望的是国泰民安，好让他能“瞻仰[上帝]的荣美，在祂的殿里求问”（诗篇27篇4节）。他内心的渴望是要亲近上帝，无论上帝在何处，大卫都享受祂同在的喜乐。这位以色列最伟大的君王、战场上的勇士，想要在太平年岁里“唱诗歌颂耶和华”（6节）。
其实，我们可以在任何地方自由地敬拜上帝，因为藉着我们的信，上帝的灵现在就住在我们心里（哥林多前书3章16节；以弗所书3章17节）。期盼我们天天都渴慕上帝的同在，并与主内肢体一同聚集敬拜祂。我们是在上帝里面得着平安与极大的喜乐，而不是在某栋建筑物中获得。
敬拜是我们对上帝表达“爱”的一种方式。你何时曾满腔热情地想要敬拜上帝？
什么会使你无法经常热切地敬拜祂呢？
亲爱的天父，祢是我心所爱也是我的喜乐。
我渴望能不受干扰、一心一意敬拜祢。