WHERE HEAVEN AND EARTH MEET

Many of you know that I have quite a lot of sky that I can see out my window – I live on the 19th floor of a building.

Although I have a lot of city lights that bleed out my ability to see too many stars in the sky, the moon is often very bright and those contours and shadows that tell us about the “man in the moon” can be quite visible.  The heavens seem quite close at those times.

In one of my readings recently the author was reflecting on how the tabernacle and the temple of the Jewish people was a meeting place for God and His people – a place where heaven and earth connected.

The story of God connecting with His people in the tabernacle and the temple is told in chapter after chapter in the Old Testament.  Then Jesus came and began to say what seemed like strange things to His contemporaries. 

Jesus spoke about His body being the temple of God that would be destroyed and then raised up again in three days. 

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Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”

John 2:19

We are now meant to be those who demonstrate every day this connection between heaven and earth.  God’s Spirit lives in us and our lives are meant to be a place where people can sense and experience the goodness and power of God’s Spirit speaking to them, pouring out grace and truth on them.

Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?  … God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. 

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

Lord, you promised that if we would simply obey Your commands that You and the Father would come and make Your home with us.  Oh Lord, help us today to walk well with You.  We want our lives to be safe places where others can see a good and loving God and through our witness and our prayers even come to know You and become part of this amazing temple that You are building.

Our world tries to say in so many ways that there is not God, and desperately needs a clear and convincing life witness to the reality of Your Spirit being alive and well and functioning here on planet earth. 

Lord, use us today, we pray, to be a connection point between heaven and earth for many so they too may see Your glory and experience Your grace and truth for themselves  Amen

Well, I certainly have found myself short of words to explain what I find amazing about this topic but I want to, and I’m sure You do too, to just live it the way Jesus wants us to live as His connection point between heaven and earth today. Have a great day today doing so.