This is the concluding statement of the 23rd Psalm. It really is our greatest love to dwell in the house of the LORD forever as in heaven and while in the earth. As we remember and choose to do so “surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our life.” Let’s let our expression extend the house of the LORD for all to know the joy and wonder of living in and of this place.
HE THAT DOETH THESE THINGS SHALL NEVER BE MOVED!
Psalm 15 lays out how to abide in the LORD’s tabernacle and dwell in His holy hill.
Consider the following in the depth of your heart:
He that walketh uprightly.
He that worketh righteousness.
He that speaketh the truth in his heart.
He that backbiteth not with his tongue.
nor doeth evil to his neighbour,
nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour,
nor putteth out his money to usury
nor taketh reward against the innocent.
I find these are great keys here to know more what it takes to constantly experience the joy and peace of abiding in the LORD’s tabernacle and dwelling in His holy hill.
THE LORD IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE
These words point to the reality that the Lord dwells in a designed place that is whole. As we still ourselves to know our place within this temple we come to a state of communion. Here we experience soundness and peace and glory and praise. Here we know ourselves as the light that we are as one.
THIS HONOUR HAVE ALL HIS SAINTS. PRAISE YE THE LORD.
Did you ever think of it this way? That it is an honor to be able to praise the LORD. To actually have the privilege to be alive in form to do this. This struck me this morning in putting things in greater perspective. That whatever arises it is an honor to praise the LORD. I can see as we keep this as our central most orientation that in whatever may arise of stressful things and even perceived good things it enables us to be in place all the time. Being in the place of providing what we would naturally provide for our one love and greatest joy to be known here on earth.
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FOR I LIFT UP MY SOUL UNTO THEE
As I consider the words, “my soul unto thee,” I sense coming into a conscious place that is above the morass of the present day world. It seems there is so much to fill our thoughts that pulls us here and there that we fail to know what it means simply to be present.
As I consider lifting up my soul unto the Lord something of peace and spaciousness dawns in my consciousness. At first the openness and spaciousness of this feeling feels in a way daunting or unfamiliar. And as I just continued to consider what it means to lift up my soul I found that I came to a conscious awareness of oneness. Oneness with all the living world. Here as I moved past the feeling of something unfamiliar I found myself at home.
My word today is to consider what it means to lift up your soul unto the Lord and to let something new be experienced something that actually gives you the experience of wonderful oneness with all the living world.
O HOW LOVE I THY LAW!
The wording of this psalm verse causes us to slow down to really comprehend what is being spoken here. Slow down enough to read and understand the meaning of these words. As we do a communion is experienced that goes beyond words that is wonderful and true.
LORD,THOU HAST BEEN OUR DWELLING PLACE IN ALL GENERATIONS
The dwelling place of all generations has always been one and the same. There really is only one place from which all of our lives spring. When we have this realization we know that all is One in the Lord. Let’s come to rest in our true and unified home.