"In the house" what a saying? It has lasted (stayed popular and relevant) for decades, for me now it is straight anoying but hey...
2 Corinthians 5:1 "For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
Have you ever been so beat down that you just wish you were anywhere but where you were, in that painful situation or mindstate? Have you ever felt so small and irrelevant that you wondered if anyone would care or notice if you disappeared, I mean really really care? Or better yet being in a situation where you just wish you could warp back to your childhood house where Mom was standing with a fire burning, hot chocolate, and a warm bed? Mmmmm hope that painted a good picture for each of you. This scripture compares any house on this earth to a tent in comparison to our heavenly estate that God has waiting for us. But this verse isn't just talking about a house but our bodies, which are the place of residence for our mind, soul, and spirit, the house that we can't get away from, though we try (alcohol, drugs, various pleasures). Our bodies are dying daily and we get concerned with how old we feel/look and it depresses us and beats us down to where we just wish we could go back to the old days when we were 12yrs old hitting tanks over the fence and slow trotting around the bases because we thought our best friends sister was watching (whoops). Point is our God offers us a house to go to any time of the day, a place where we find peace, rest, and encouragement and strength for the oncoming battles. Looking to heaven where we have hope and a wonderful inheritance is good but it doesn't always get it done, so... We can look into our earthly house/body and find a Spirit that is waiting to help us and give us rest and peace. The Holy Spirit is with us where ever we go (scripture ?) and all we have to do is stop and acknowledge Him (God-Son-Holy Spirit=trinity). More than that our house is our group.
Hebrews 3:6 "but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end."
God (Christ, Holy Spirit) has taken up residence in us (His own house) and He is at work amongst us so by fellowshipping we are interacting with the Holy Spirit and in return we are finding peace from our problems (that are most often caused from being selfish and not focusing on the power and beauty of God's plan). So you see in the Hebrews scrip that "house" means people. Thats us, congratulations! Let me run back a point here; Where does the Lord choose to dwell? In us! Amazing! Who else loves you like that? So lets remember that we can find peace when we turn to Him and he is only one call away (pray, reading His word, fellowship, etc...). Are you in the House? Hahaha!
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John 14 (1-4) "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going"
You want to talk about putting a warm fuzzy feeling over you...
After reading what Benjamin wrote on his post, it made me bring it back very basic which is how the whole Bible is when you actually break it down. When we are kids playing games, or adults doing recreation or even with the majority of every human interaction there is a sense of home. When you play tag, there is a safety base. Football, you take it to the endzone (or house) ha. Baseball....obviously, bases. One of our basic human needs is shelter and you just feel that in everything you do. For you Cardinals, how strange did it feel in DodgerTown with no dugout over your head? There are so many movies, songs, poems speaking of the comforts of "home". Why do we have this need or longing in the human spirit for a sense of "homecoming". It is built within us, and from the verses that Jules put on there and the one above, you see why. We are wired to long to be with our heavenly Father, in his house with his safe arms around us.
I don't know if any of you have kids, but what do they do when they are uncomfortable around strange or unknown things? They run and grab on to their parent's leg.....home, base, safety. It is in us all. Prepare yourselves for the ultimate of all homecomings, when you see Jesus with open arms waiting for you to run to him in Heaven you good and faithful servant. Wow!
So fitting and not a coincidence (I don't believe in coincidences) that the JuJu train touched on this subject today. I just recently read today CS Lewis' words on keeping our eyes fixed on Heaven or "the house". I feel this is a great addition to what Tyler just said about our longing for a sense of "homecoming". Check it out:
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probably explanation is that I was made for another world. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death."
I think CS Lewis is officially a member of this blog now. I just speak for him.
-TEvans
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