Friday, February 5, 2016

God's presence in His people

     The purpose for the Tabernacle was for God's presence to dwell among them.  Our body is God's tabernacle today and He wants to dwell supreme in us.  "Let my people construct a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell among them"  Ex. 25:8.  God wants us to yearn to know Him like David did.  For our hearts to pant after our wonderful Lord.  Where the deep in us calls to know the deep in God. 
    This life lived in harmony with God is a peaceful, powerful, and overcoming life that God intended for us to know.  We are to make an impact in the world in which we live.  The harassed, busy, stressful lives, we live reveals little of God to a lost world that is dying for lack of knowing Him.  I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old.  When we open our mouths does it reveal God to them to whom we speak.
     God has made us with a desire to know Him and to worship.  Restlessness, tension,and fear takes the place of knowing Him.  So we are paying a high price for not knowing Him.

     Let's make it our priority to know Him.  The peace we often forfeit and the pain we bear, for not knowing Him and the resurrection power.  Only He can give us, when all is placed on the altar.  When Queen Esther was willing to lose her life if necessary to fit into God's plan for her.  She went to the King and the King said, I will give your request even to half of the kingdom.  Mordecai and Esther stood up for God and changed the course of History.  They sent out letters with the King's seal on them that Purim should be kept every year among the Jews.   They changed the word Pur, a day of mourning, the Jews would be killed.  To the word Purim a day of gladness, and great joy,  The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honor.  God can do the same for us and our nation, if we will humble ourselves and pray.

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