Showing posts with label House of Fellowshippers/brothers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label House of Fellowshippers/brothers. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Are You In the House?

"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!