At Home with God part 2.

We learn t in the previous post that God finds rest in us .God's home is no longer in a  spatial place that we would call heaven but Is in us It’s the climax of the love story where we and God dwell together and we find our refuge in him and he finds a dwelling place in us.

1. God is everywhere, We cant hide from him.

Psalm 139:1-15 O LORD, you have searched me and known me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. 5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. 7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night," 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. 13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

God knows us, even if we doubt ourselves there is a supreme being who knows us perfectly and forever. He is not confused about us. He is aware of our rising up and of our lying down.

David knew this and concluded that there is nothing he could do to flee from God. This is true and yet we find in our churches that we are so used to playing the Church game as if God is playing hide and seek with us.

We are used to the draw nearer to God and he will draw nearer to us phenomenon not discerning the times we are living in and not discerning the presence of God by the person of his spirit who is everywhere. There is something about God that he is everywhere with us, a knowledge too wonderful for us such that we need his spirit to testify to our spirit that we are sons of God.

Isn’t it wonderful that even if we lay our pits in hell, there God will find us ? He is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. He will always come to your rescue even if you doubt him and are confused about yourself.

Don’t you know that he who is joined with the lord with the lord has become one spirit? He and not you took the initiative of this union. God loves you and has joined himself to you with an everlasting covenant the result which everything has become new. God and man can have an uninterrupted fellowship which is perfect and forever.

2. He is Emmanuel, God with us

God refuses to be God by himself and decides to be God with us . God loves to dwell among his people. God is union. He is all about relationship, always looking forward to pour himself to us.

Man on the other side is not complete without relationship. That explains why we are always looking forward to belong to a particular group. The re is so much solidarity and strength and purpose that is just derived from having belonged to family. God is the genesis of all this system. We find a sense of purpose direction and life when we know that there is a supreme being about us.

Jesus explains, expounds the heart of the father. He said “he who eats of me will never hunger and he who drinks of me will never thirst”. His body is real food and his blood is true drink. Jesus in his mission reveals god as one who is with us and not separate from us. In fact he reveals humanity to be united with God where man feasts on God literally and finds life in him alone.

Its our heritage to dwell with God having an uninterrupted fellowship full of bliss. This is what the gospel announces. The gospel is good news that makes a man leap with joy . Its news that announces God and man are now united and joined with a strand of love that cannot be broken. No wonder the gospel is so sweet and provides an everlasting assurance of our souls that we re at peace with God .we calll God Abba father

Rom 5:1-2 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Through Christ we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

The glory of God is manifested when God is revealed amongst us and in us. Its not enough that God is magnified in the heavens alone but God invests his glory, his manifold power, his love, his fullness in man. What a glory that is ours in Christ Jesus.