Gatekeeper. It might sound like a boring, unfulfilling job. It may be the kind of job that you wanted to quit. Maybe it’s the kind of job that makes you jealous of your little Jewish friend Ahab, whose family is in the shepherding business. At least he gets to enjoy the outdoors, rather than standing around, keeping gates. Gates don’t move, they don’t run… it would be better to be a sheep-keeper.
When I look at this from the human perspective this is what it seems like to me, a bummer of a job, kind of like being a mall security guard. But the Bible gives a different perspective… listen to what the Psalmist said.
For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
(Psa 84:10)
According to the Psalmist, the privilege of being a child of God, no matter what your job may be, FAR OUTWAYS anything the world can offer. In the tents of wickedness you can’t find what even the DOORWAY to God’s house offers. The psalmist says that ONE DAY in God’s courts is better than a thousand days anywhere else! That’s almost 3 years! Imagine, he says he would trade 3 years of living ANYWHERE ELSE for just a day in the courts of the LORD! Oh, that we would think that way! We forget how privileged we are, and we become like the complaining gatekeeper… wishing he could be anything else. We forget so quickly that we have the GREATEST THING OF ALL, and we get jealous of MEANINGLESS TRINKETS. It would be like getting an incredible treasure chest full of jewels and then throwing a fit because your mom wouldn’t buy you a plastic ring from one of those grocery store toy machines.
Remember, to be any part of God’s kingdom at all completely blows anything this world has to offer OUT OF THE WATER.
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