Psalm
26:8
LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your
house,
And the place where Your glory dwells.
Dwelling Place of God
We
are so blessed to be the chosen people created before
the foundation of the world to be the habitations
of God. We are the privileged people designed
to be vessels of His surpassing glory. God calls us
to enter into the fullness and simplicity of this
life. Religion makes things complex. Jesus simplifies.
Life in Him is simple, but sacrificial. There are
verses in the scriptures that are keys and unlock
the blessings of many other promises of God revealed
in the scriptures. One of these verses is “seek
first the Kingdom of God and all these things will
be added to you.”(Matt. 6:33) And it is
true that by putting the Lord first in our hearts
and in everything we do that all the other blessings
in the scriptures are fulfilled. Another like
it is “Love the Lord & love your neighbor
– all the law and the prophets are fulfilled
in these . . . (Mark 12:31) These are key verses that
open the doors of our lives to the flood of heaven’s
blessings and most of all His manifest presence.
A
Promised Experience
John
14:21-22
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it
is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved
by My Father, and I will love him and manifest
Myself to him."
Jesus
promises us an experience of the Father's love as
we hold His commandments in our hearts. He will love
us and manifest Himself to us when we learn to love,
treasure and obey His words. Jesus spoke many
words but His key commands to us were to love God
and love our neighbor. To do unto others, as
we would have them do unto us – the heart of
this being love. God is love. He who loves is
of God. If someone says that He loves God, but
does not love his brother – he is a liar and
the truth is not in him. Jesus also added to
this by saying that the world will know us by our
love for one another – interesting that He did
not say “your love for God”. The
reason Jesus said this is because the true measure
of whether you love God or not is if you love your
neighbor and your brother in Christ. We are
taught to have “fervent love” for the
people of God, the saints. The definition for
saint is “holy one”. So the Father
views us as “holy ones” before Him.
God is holy. Purity is part of His nature.
We also know that love is central to that same nature.
So holiness and love are very much intertwined.
These are inseparable from one another. Jesus
was the very image of God on the earth. He was
and is known for His great love. We also know
that He was without sin, the holy Lamb of God.
Again, holiness and love are purely represented in
the Lord Jesus. So as we engage ourselves into
the depths of God’s love poured out by His Spirit
within us, we enter into His most profound holiness
and walk worthily of the title “saint or holy
one”. Jesus being the “Holy One
of God”, we are grafted into that wonderful
life with Him.
Today
commit yourself in covenant with God to set your heart
to walk worthy of the calling where you have been
called – to love unconditionally with a sacrificial
heart surrendered to His desires. He has promised
to make His abode within you. He constantly
looks throughout the earth to find those whose hearts
are toward Him. He seeks a heart that
He can call home.
