Home

Have you ever had to move to a different home after living in a place for many years? If you have then you will understand what I mean when I say it takes a long time for you to call it home. For quite awhile the place you moved from is home. You have to get “settled in” to the new place. Put your personal touches to it. You may put stuff in place then rearrange it several times until one day you can finally call it home. The apostle Paul, in Ephesians 3: 14-21, is praying for the church in Ephesus. He is praying for believers there who are clearly already saved, but as he is praying , he asks God the Father to strengthen them with power from his Spirit in their inner being so that Christ may dwell in their hearts through faith. That’s interesting to me. As believers Christ was already in their heart. So what did Paul mean? I think when we first believe and are young in the faith we are like that different house. When The spirit of Christ first comes in he does come to stay but there’s some things he wants to do in there to make it his home. Just like we would he begins by first cleaning it up. As we study his word, learn from mature teachers, and pray and have fellowship with other believers our lives begin to change from our old sinful nature to the new nature. As that transformation takes place, which is Jesus rearranging things, it becomes the dwelling place of God. Home. What an encouragement to think of our inner being as home for the very Spirit of God!! It’s also humbling to me because I know I don’t deserve such an honor. Has your heart become the dwelling place that Christ calls home? Dear God thank you for coming into our lives. For dwelling in us and with us. Never leaving us or forsaking us!!