Thoughts for another day

Feb. 20, 2013.

Today's verse: Ps. 26:8. LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.  (KJV)

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

Having pondered on the beauty of the Lord, I move on to His dwelling place or as it is also called the tenting place of His glory.  Oh, how beautiful are the portals of the place where the Glory of the Lord chooses to establish its tent.  How stately the mansion where the throne of God is and by the way, Jesus has told us that He goes to prepare a place for us in His mansion; isn’t that wonderful?  How lovely will the smell of His fragrance be, that will occupy the atmosphere of His dwelling?  How brilliant the visuals that will meet the eye, titillating it beyond that which is unimaginable?

When I think of this, I can see how the most wonderful, the most brilliant or the most precious things on earth pale into insignificance before the Lord and His dwelling place and the nature of His surroundings.  I remember clearly Paul saying in 1 Cor. 2:9, ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him’ and my soul delights in this promise for I now know what it means to be called His child and to reside in the most brilliant place in eternal life, what I can never visualize over here. 

Then I think of Him who has made this possible, despite our sinning and offending His lovely glory.  How, He came to this dirty earth to take a lowly position and live among mortals with their limitations and dirt; and then die for them who weren’t worthy of Him.  Yet He considered not our unworthiness; rather He considered the love with which He created us.  He considered the plan He had envisaged for us before He created us: which is to have us with Him, to commune and enjoy with Him.  Therefore he set His face like flint and going to the Cross, wrought salvation for us and saved us from the ignominy of hell, an ignominy we had brought upon ourselves.  To such a God be all glory across all ages, all worlds, all creatures and all wisdom.