'At Home' In the Lord

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Lord, You have been our dwelling place from generation to generation. - Psalm 90:1
Psalm 90:1
'At Home' In the Lord

Christchurch Cathedral, New Zealand, interior pre-earthquake. Picture courtesy of jontynz.com, adapted by prayer7s

David wrote:

4 They wandered in the wilderness along the way of the wasteland;
They did not find an inhabited city.
5 Hungry and thirsty,
Their soul fainted within them.
6 Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble;
He delivered them out of their distresses.
7 He led them by a straight (level) way,
To go to an inhabited city.
- Psalm 107:4-7

So homeless, hungry and thirsty in the desert and He led them to a place to live. Our souls need a place where we're at rest; a place where we can lay down our worries, weariness and frustrations.

My soul has longed and even fainted for the courts of Yahweh; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. - Psalm 84:2
Jesus recognized that our souls need a place to rest and call home. He said:
Come to me and I will give you rest — all of you who work so hard beneath a heavy yoke.- Matthew 11:28
Take care to live in me, and let me live in you. For a branch can’t produce fruit when severed from the vine. Nor can you be fruitful apart from me.- John 15:4

Note that he doesn't invite you as a visitor but as a family member, enjoying all the benefits that go with it. So how do you enter into this dwelling place? If someone gave you a beautiful home how would you take possession of it? You'd make sure the giver was serious, inspect the necessary paperwork (with your lawyer) then move in and enjoy it.

Is the Lord serious when he says 'Live in Me'? Yes. If you have prayed the sinners' prayer and been baptized, your name is on the required biblical paperwork. So you talk to a good Jewish lawyer whose name is "Jesus Christ". H will then hand you the key's and by faith you pack yourself up and move in today! Not baptized yet - arrange a pre-lease agreement! Poet S.T. Coleridge wrote, 'Faith is an affirmation, and an act, that bids eternal truth to be present fact.' Turn your faith into 'present fact' and declare, 'The Lord in now my permanent, secure, dwelling place.' Repeat it as often as needed, Psalm 90:1 is a promise to be claimed!

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