My Resting Place

Psalms 132:13-14 (ESV)

13 For the LORD has chosen Zion;

he has desired it for his dwelling place:

14 “This is my resting place forever;

here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

Genesis 2:1-2 (ESV)

The Seventh Day, God Rests

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

When the new creation is finished, God will rest in the New Jerusalem forever. This is why the world is so opposed to Israel. 

Works Of The Flesh

Galatians 5:18-21 (ESV)

18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

The world is a fleshy place. The merchants of flesh use their voice to promote an agenda contrary to the truth of God. They will be with us until sin and death are cast into the lake of fire. They are not part of the kingdom of God, nor will they ever be. 

Not Yet

What we are has not yet been revealed, but in the end we shall be like Him. 

The Lamp

Luke 11:34 (ESV)

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.

Only Jesus can heal our blindness to the light of heaven. That healing is only a word away. 

After Our Likeness

Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV)

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

27 So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.

“God created man in his own image” because He would take man’s image for His own. Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the flesh of man and God would become the Son of Man. He was chosen before the foundation of creation and is the reason for creation. 

Transforming Presence

Prayer lifts us up into His transforming presence. 

After My Heart

Acts 13:22 (ESV)

And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

The Lord calls out and seeks a heart after His own. When we answer from the heart, we are found.