Five amazing days of incredible miraculous Creator Power displayed by the Word ... And the stage was set for Love. The lush décor was chosen and all the marvels of Love's comfort was in place. Now the curtain was to be drawn back on the mystery, revealing the reason for all of this intricate detail; and all looking on would to be held in awe.
The crowd of creation hushed as the creator stepped into the garden scene, gently dropped to His knees, and carefully reached, kneaded, and formed the pliable warm soil of Eden with His masterful hands to create the beginning of something that seemed to come into focus with the song filled voice of the Bright and Morning Star.
As Creation watched ... They knew that this was the Image of The Habitation, this was His Home created in His likeness, this was the beginning of the Ones that would live in Him, and He in them. Then the hush grew stronger, the Smile of the Creator widened as His Life giving Breath streamed purposely into the nostrils of His Home.
But the Fall, oh the groaning began, the pain arrived, the transgression scarred the beautiful love song of Eden ...
O Creation's shattered soul, brought on by the Hater of Glory's Dream,
Though Eden's home was ransacked sore, this cannot dissuade the Creator's Theme:
Redeemed How Thy song would proclaim it, redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb,
Redeemed by His most tender mercies, His Home ... Our Home, forever ..."I AM."
The story would move forward as glimpses of glory would shine through the groaning and the afflictions of those who would be the guardian lovers of the truth, and follow after God with that groaning desire to provide a habitation for Him and carried forward with a Longing for a Home forever with Him.David was known as a "man after God's own Heart" ... And it may have been because of that Groaning House that he lived in ... Read the following:
Psalm 132: 1-5 - " LORD, remember David, and all of his afflictions: How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the Mighty God of Jacob; Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the Mighty God of Jacob."
Read the entire Psalm ... And open your eyes to the blessing that David brought on the people of Mighty God of Jacob {Jacob, the one who wrestled for a blessing, and got a new walk and a new name} because of this desire to provide a Him a habitation. There was no doubt that David had been given glimpses of God's Glorious Home, as the provisions for this Home were prophetically on the way ... Jesus would have His habitation, as the veil of the temple, torn from the top to the bottom to make full payment to openly redeem this Groaning Home of ours and make it His own.
2 Corinthians 5:17 - "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (habitation): old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
As we begin to be saturated with the desires of taking full advantage of this NEW HABITATION prepared for Him ... All the old "stuff" that caused us groaning and distance from Him -- begins to pass us right by (Like scenes out of a moving train window).
And as we give His Spirit and His Word a full and royal reception into the fabric of our "every day", we can begin to watch all things beginning to be filled with the newness of the future. He is our Refuge, our Eternal Habitation and by the miracle of redemption we are His.
Step over the threshold and enter in!
HLFA,
Jeff
Ps... John 17:20-26