Today’s Thought “Your Opinions, Your Philosophies…” G. Ward Psalm 84 6 Passing through the Valley of Baca they make it a spring; The early rain also covers it with blessings. 7 They go from strength to strength, Every one of them appears before God in Zion. This great Psalm speaks to an anticipation of worship (i.e. gaining presence with Holy God). As worshippers walked the distance to their perspective place of worship, they would encounter picturesque tracts of land that lent effortless accompaniment to the joy of it all; but the valley spoken of was extremely arid (dreary) and certainly could have dampened the worshipper’s experiencing a joyful ascent to the Temple. By faith and very particularly in this New Testament era, we’re called temples of the Spirit (1 Cor.6:19-20) and conditions all around are with great moral failures, pervading great unrest with its common citizenry. Participation in the fury without absolute resolve (i.e. peace – cf. Jn.14:27) is a contribution in futility that subtracts from spiritual effectiveness, along with hindering desired presence with the Holy One (*cf. 2 Ti.2:16).