Day 84 – No matter how hard we try or how big we make it, there is no way possible to confine God to any one place.
Today’s Reading: 1 Kings 6 – 8
1 Kings 8:27 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!”
Solomon had the privilege of building the House of the Lord since there was no blood on his hands. Yet Solomon realized that not even the Heavens or the Earth could confine God to one place. Solomon built this house as a place to worship, a place to house His Word, a place to pray together, but not a place for God to live. The house of the Lord was to bring about Unity within their community, to lift up prayers to Our Father in Heaven. And Solomon asked God to always keep His eyes on this house to hear the pleas of all those who love Him and walk according to His ways.
The people were to bring every need to God in this house, it was an open door policy for all people. These pleas could be for forgiveness, foreigners, freedom, compassion, and anything else to be heard by God.
Solomon knew that God was always with them, He had been with their fathers before them, and He would never leave them. If only Solomon knew that now we have an even better promise.
God in all of His Greatness, who can not be contained in Heaven or on Earth, cannot be confined by Death, but actually sent His Son to live on Earth with us, to overtake Death, and to give us Eternal Life. He gave us His body and He gave us His blood, so that we could be the body and He lives in our blood.
We have all of Him, but we cannot contain Him, and Solomon in his wisdom knew then what we know now. We, as a people, have changed what He originally meant for the church, but it can be changed back, it just needs you.
I pray that you find a House of Prayer and that you pray and that you take His offering to Live in you and through you. Don’t let another day go by. Don’t try to confine Him in a box, but we can Live with Him. Choose this day Life and take up your cross!
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