His Rest and Ours

Psalm 24:1

The earth is the LORD's,  and the fullness thereof; the  world,

and they that dwell therein.

I'm sharing another page from my journal today.   I'm trusting you'll be able  to "read into it" because I don't want to add an "explanation" since, sometimes, if you're like me, it gets in the way and muddies the water.  So,  I'm trusting understanding to come as you read it from your own perspective.  Here goes!

Sunday, November 24,2019

HIS  PLACE of REST IS US:     See Psalm 132:4-5, 7-9 and 13-14 NASB

                                4                I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids

                      5                Until I find a place for the Lord,                                     

A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.

7 Let us go into His dwelling place;
Let us worship at His footstool.
8 Arise, O Lord, to Your resting place,
You and the ark of Your strength.
9 Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness,
And let Your godly ones sing for joy.

10 

For the Lord has chosen *Zion;
He has desired it for His habitation.
14 “This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.  (emphasis mine)

(* Zion is also representative of  the Church and didn't Jesus tell His disciples He would not only be with them but also in them in John 14:20)

I Kings 8:10     Solomon's Temple

My words here: When they finished their works of service (making a place for Him) He entered into His place of Rest and the Glory Came and filled the whole house.

• Deep calls to Deep: (My deep need calls out to the deep kindness of your love. Psalm 42:7a  The Passion Translation)
• The Fire the repentance  and cleansing of the places  in us which He hasn't  been allowed to  fully possess before is the doorway to His rest and ours.
• None of us know the depth of cleansing from the old ways that we need.  Only the Spirit can show us.  (see Hebrews 4 in The Passion Translation)

Now as I write this I'm adding parts of 1 Chronicles 5:11 and 13 and all of 14. MEV  

11 When the priests came out from the Most Holy Place—for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves--... 13...and praised the Lord saying,

“For He is good and His mercy endures forever,”

the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud. 14 And the priests were not able to stand in order to serve because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.

These verses help tie it all together for me, because surrendering our ways and our works over and over, exchanging them for His  gives us rest from our works and prepares the way for Him to find  His place of rest in us.  And that's when the Glory can begin to  fill  us, His Temple, more and more and more.

          Scriptures taken from the Modern English Version Copyright © 2014 by Military Bible Association. Used by Permission. All rights reserved
       

2 Corinthians 4:7 

But we  have this treasure in earthen vessels, 

that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.