Dwelling place…

 Dwelling place…

We all seek safe shelter, a dwelling place…David asked about shelter and who may dwell there…there are guidelines…found later in the the psalm…and others…

But dwelling place is found other places it is found as well…and that is what caught heart time around…where do we find peace of mind, sanctuary…

I had a picture of a small bird nested in the crags of a rock just above the crashing waves of the ocean…she sat on her tiny eggs totally at ease…waiting for her eggs to hatch, even though the waves crashed around her…we want that peace of mind when the world is crashing  around us as well…

God is our peace, our dwelling place …he gives us comfort in times of trouble, crashing waves…

Thank YOU…

David asks…

“LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary?

Who may live on your holy hill?…..”

Psalm 15:1

He asks again in psalms 24, 27..

 “Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart,who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. He will receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.”

Ps.24.3-5

 One thing have I asked of the Lord,that will I seek after:that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. 

For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble;he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;he will lift me high upon a rock. 

And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me,and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy;I will sing and make melody to the Lord.

Ps.27.4-6

Spoken from Moses to the tribe of Asher…

“ The eternal God is your dwelling place,and underneath are the everlasting arms…..

Deut.33.27a

Psalm 84 written down by the Sons of Koran…

 How lovely is your dwelling place,O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord;my heart and flesh sing for joyto the living God. Blessed are those who dwell in your house,ever singing your praise! 

Selah For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Ps.84.1-2,Ps.84.4,Ps.84.10

Paul to the Ephesians…

 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 

And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 

For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 

In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

Eph.2.12-22

John in Revelations…

 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. 

He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Rev.21.1-4 

You are our hiding place…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc4b-wKj11c&list=RDWc4b-wKj11c&start_radio=1