July 7, 2014 FEELING AT HOME
1 Corinthians 3:16: “Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” I recently read an article by Chuck Swindoll and he was saying that we should welcome God in our lives and we should make Him feel at home in us. I think he made a good point. Also, Peter Parris makes the same point in his devotional book “Act Like A Man”. After all, is having the Spirit of God living in us not the greatest thing that could happen to us and in us? What is it that makes Him feel at home in us? We may have trouble in grasping this at times, but God expects us to be like Him (not that we would ever try to be God) in all of our behavior and in our thinking and our life in general. This is possible only because He has given us the Holy Spirit who equips us to be like Him. Ephesians 1:4: “just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him…” Also in 1 Peter 1:15 we find; “but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy”. The call to be holy is far reaching and it touches every aspect of our lives including how we think, our actions, relationships, our finances, our responses, honesty, integrity, character, our love for others, faithfulness and the list goes on. It is KEY to understand that it’s not so much having to “work” on the list above, but to understand that these things are more of a result of Him being welcome in our lives. There is a maturing process and we should be becoming more and more like Him. 11 Corinthians 3:18: “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” It is only natural to become like our real Father God. If and when we find those unholy things popping up in our lives, just acknowledge it as such, repent and then keep walking in holiness. Some may be tempted to take a measure of pride in their “holiness”, but actually it is very humbling to realize that God has given us the grace to be like Him. Jesus humbled Himself when He came to earth and took on the form of man and was crucified for us. So, let us be alert to making Him feel at home in us, let us keep this “temple” in good order and let us make it an attractive place for our Father to abode.
Colossians 1:21-23: “And you that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight: if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;”
Blessings,
Buddy
1 Corinthians 3:16: “Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” I recently read an article by Chuck Swindoll and he was saying that we should welcome God in our lives and we should make Him feel at home in us. I think he made a good point. Also, Peter Parris makes the same point in his devotional book “Act Like A Man”. After all, is having the Spirit of God living in us not the greatest thing that could happen to us and in us? What is it that makes Him feel at home in us? We may have trouble in grasping this at times, but God expects us to be like Him (not that we would ever try to be God) in all of our behavior and in our thinking and our life in general. This is possible only because He has given us the Holy Spirit who equips us to be like Him. Ephesians 1:4: “just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him…” Also in 1 Peter 1:15 we find; “but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy”. The call to be holy is far reaching and it touches every aspect of our lives including how we think, our actions, relationships, our finances, our responses, honesty, integrity, character, our love for others, faithfulness and the list goes on. It is KEY to understand that it’s not so much having to “work” on the list above, but to understand that these things are more of a result of Him being welcome in our lives. There is a maturing process and we should be becoming more and more like Him. 11 Corinthians 3:18: “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” It is only natural to become like our real Father God. If and when we find those unholy things popping up in our lives, just acknowledge it as such, repent and then keep walking in holiness. Some may be tempted to take a measure of pride in their “holiness”, but actually it is very humbling to realize that God has given us the grace to be like Him. Jesus humbled Himself when He came to earth and took on the form of man and was crucified for us. So, let us be alert to making Him feel at home in us, let us keep this “temple” in good order and let us make it an attractive place for our Father to abode.
Colossians 1:21-23: “And you that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight: if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;”
Blessings,
Buddy
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