Hello Everyone!
I hope you are all doing well this week! I have just started back to work and I am tired already. I am definitely looking forward to the weekend to relax and recharge! Our blog post today is about God rebuilding our temples. Throughout the Old Testament, Moses, Solomon, and the prophets were building and rebuilding temples for God to come dwell. If we look back to the beginning where God created everything, you will notice that there wasn't a temple. There was just the garden, God, man, woman, and all of creation, but God walked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the day. If we fast forward to the New Testament, there was a temple, but Jesus knew that God had a different plan. He didn't want a temple of bricks and stone, He had something else in mind. If you would like to find out more, keep reading, but before we do, I hope you have your cup of coffee or tea with you.
The temples that God had mind were hearts of flesh, that's right, He wants you and I to become His temples to dwell in. David was one of the men who knew God's heart and plan. He says in Psalm 139:23, "Search me God and know my heart." Why would David say these words? In Proverbs 4:23, "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." Think about this for a moment, everything you do flows from the heart. Why do people murder other people? It begins with a thought and then out of their hearts, they act upon it. Why are other people bitter and jealous? It starts with a thought and then if you do not take these thoughts captive, they enter into the heart and then they say and do things because of the jealousy and bitterness in their hearts. Jesus said, "It's not what goes into your body that defiles you, you are defiled by what comes from your heart." Mark 7:15 So God is concerned with our hearts on the inside because if He can get to the root of the situation, it will reflect on the outside. He is interested in our hearts not just our outer temples.
Whenever the temples in the old testament would become defiled, it was usually sin. The presence of the Lord would leave because of sin and the only way to get rid of that sin was to do a house cleaning. They would have to throw the idols out and everything else that they set apart to that idol. In the same way, God has to do house cleaning in our hearts. If there is any bitterness, anger, resentment, unforgiveness, jealously, gossip, etc in our hearts, God is the only One that can uproot it out of us. Once He does this, we will have peace, our relationship with God will be set right again, and we will enjoy the blessings of God again. As long as there is sin in our heart, it will set the tone of our lives, they will not be enjoyable or fulfilling, in fact, we will be miserable with ourselves, everyone, and everything. We will not be living the everlasting life that Jesus promised, we will be living the miserable life that satan wants us to live.
So my friends, I pray that we will allow God to search our hearts today and everyday from here on and cast out whatever needs to be cast out of our hearts. Allow God to check your heart beat today and let Him determine what needs to be extracted. Ask the Lord to take out all the bitterness, the hurt and the pain, the anger, the unforgiveness, anything that is not of Him. Once He does, you will have so much peace and joy, you will be overflowing and you will want to tell everyone you meet about what the Lord has done for you. You will have a new song in your heart and people will wonder what's gotten into you? You can tell them that Jesus has changed my life and He can do the same thing for you! Friends, I pray that this has blessed you and encouraged you today! May God bless you and keep you! Until next time!
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