Give Thanks to the Lord for His House

 Psalm 122: I was glad when they said to me,
    “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”
2 Our feet have been standing
    within your gates, O Jerusalem!
3 Jerusalem—built as a city
    that is bound firmly together,
4 to which the tribes go up,
    the tribes of the Lord,
as was decreed for Israel,
    to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
This is yet another psalm of David in which he calls us to thanksgiving. This time David was rejoicing over the privilege of worshipping God in Jerusalem, the place He had established.  This was a big thing to David, as he often did not have that privilege, having been on the run from Saul, the Philistines, and other enemies.  He had learned not to take this for granted. We should not equate church buildings with the temple or as sacred in and of themselves, but we should not miss the importance of gathering together with God's people to worship and give Him thanks.  The lack of a desire to do so indicates ingratitude.