Becoming God’s Sanctuary….today’s task
Psalm 114:2
S–Judah became God’s sanctuary; Israel His dominion.
H–As the author is remembering the mighty acts of God through the exodus and journey to the promise land this verse jumps out and grabs me this morning. I have never thought of God having a sanctuary; a place where God worships. So often I think of coming into the sanctuary to worship God; a sanctuary being that place where God dwells. In this verse the psalmist takes me into another dimension as if to say that God’s people and where they dwell are His sanctuary. What a fascinating thought this morning that God’s sanctuary is His people and where they dwell.
A–How would my life change today if I believed that I was God’s sanctuary? What if God is constantly trying to get the attention of His sanctuary? I wonder what it feels like for God to constantly cry out in His sanctuary only to be ignored by it? What if as we leave corporate worship we go into the world and as we go into the world during the week the sanctuary of God goes into the world? What if God’s purpose is for us to recognize we are His sanctuary and to allow this God to have our attention within His sanctuary? I am captivated at this thought and asking for grace today to live into this responsibility to be a sanctuary for God.
P–Lord, I’m not sure what all this means but I do believe that you look at your people as your sanctuary and where ever your people are there is your sanctuary….that place where you seek to lay your whole self exposed to move and direct. Just as we come and lay ourselves before you and you are our sanctuary so may you empower us to rise from that place to live into the responsibility of the psalmist to be your sanctuary within the world. Amen.
E–I have been freed through Jesus to become God’s sanctuary.
Peace, Pastor P
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