Last weekend, I quoted Psalms 27:1 during my Sunday School report in church. This week I was drawn back to it and found this strange and familiar phrase:
PSALM 27:4
"One thing I ask from the Lord
This only do I seek
That I may dwell in the
house of the Lord
All my days!"
I've heard this phrase before, but, as it usually goes, once I really looked at it and meditated over it, it took a whole new dimension.
The 'house of the Lord' brings to mind HEAVEN.
And, it is true that we, as believers, will dwell in Heaven all the days of our lives. But, once you think about what the New Testament faith did for us, it becomes more deeper.
Think about it. To the Jew, the 'house of the Lord' was the Temple. What Christ did for us made it possible to live out that dream! Jesus said he was to go away, but, if he went away, he would leave a comforter to abide IN us!
I Corinthians 6:19
"Do you not know that your BODIES are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have
received from God?"
So, as the Psalmist wished for that one thing, in other words to dwell in the house of the Lord, he had no idea that one day the Spirit of the Living God would dwell in the body of the believer. That the body of the believer would become the temple of the most high God.
AND
as Paul made clear,
we should honor God with our bodies.
Lord, help me remember that my body is not my own. It was bought with a price. That inside of me rests the Spirit of the Most High; bringing his light to the people.
Bringing his Temple to the lost.
PSALM 27:4
"One thing I ask from the Lord
This only do I seek
That I may dwell in the
house of the Lord
All my days!"
I've heard this phrase before, but, as it usually goes, once I really looked at it and meditated over it, it took a whole new dimension.
The 'house of the Lord' brings to mind HEAVEN.
And, it is true that we, as believers, will dwell in Heaven all the days of our lives. But, once you think about what the New Testament faith did for us, it becomes more deeper.
Think about it. To the Jew, the 'house of the Lord' was the Temple. What Christ did for us made it possible to live out that dream! Jesus said he was to go away, but, if he went away, he would leave a comforter to abide IN us!
I Corinthians 6:19
"Do you not know that your BODIES are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have
received from God?"
So, as the Psalmist wished for that one thing, in other words to dwell in the house of the Lord, he had no idea that one day the Spirit of the Living God would dwell in the body of the believer. That the body of the believer would become the temple of the most high God.
AND
as Paul made clear,
we should honor God with our bodies.
Lord, help me remember that my body is not my own. It was bought with a price. That inside of me rests the Spirit of the Most High; bringing his light to the people.
Bringing his Temple to the lost.