“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” (Psalm 84:10, NKJV). A doorkeeper isn’t a position of status or comfort. It’s humble, easily overlooked work.
And yet the psalmist prefers it, genuinely, over comfortable dwelling anywhere else. Nearness to God outweighs status entirely in this comparison.
This is worth checking against our own instincts, which often chase status and comfort first, treating nearness to God as secondary if it fits.
Would you genuinely choose a humble, doorkeeper-level nearness to God over comfortable distance from Him, the way this verse does?