Thoughts for another day





September 24, 2010




Today's verse: Acts 7: 48, 49. Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? (KJV)


(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)




The Lord our God is awesome and simply magnificent. He gives meaning to the term, 'all in all' because He is all in all. He is so vast that vastness is there because He is. He is beyond man's best attempts to perceive, because He is beyond perception. One cannot even envision God for God is simply beyond our efforts to envision. He is awesome beyond awesomeness, and more brilliant than, if I may say, a million suns for He is it's maker of the sun and to Him, it's just a blob of light.




Now then, imagine if you can, how this very God, most beautiful God chooses to come and dwell with us who are merely straws of grass, which wither away within no time in the heat of the sun. The Jews had made a temple for Him as He directed and they thought they were safe because He dwelt there and they felt that they could hold Him there, but then, God is God and not to be held in dwellings made with human hands for what dwelling is there that man can make for God? He is so great that He fills heaven and earth and we must know that the earth is just a resting place for His foot while His throne is heaven.




The Lord chooses the simplest things that man can give Him. He chooses our hearts to dwell in for He knows that our hearts are the seat of things which are the core of our beings and He wants to be a part of the core of our being so that we will always be in Him and He in us. My friend God seeks to dwell in us and He isn't asking us for much for He created us and He thinks it fit to come and dwell with us in our hearts and then someday, we will go dwell in His heart – isn't that a wonderful transaction that God allows us to have with Him?