Our New Home: With Him

"...Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6:10)

"Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your Name..." (Matthew 6:9)

"...on earth as it is in heaven..."

Once becoming children of the Living God (John 1:12-13) ...Christians...Believers...

...residing in His court

  ...protected beneath His solid wings

    ...lying in painful yet hopeful anticipation as we burn on His precious
         altar

                                     ...Emmanuel!...God is WITH us.

Ultimately, our New Home is with God: "...on earth as it is in heaven...".  We no longer live, walking around, in a decaying and crumbling world (Romans 8:20-21; Ephesians 4:21-22), separated from God (Ephesians 4:17-19; Colossians 1:21-22).  No.  Now those who have crossed over from death to life (John 5:24) abide in a supernatural realm that cannot be seen fully yet, not even with spiritual eyes; and with us in that New Home dwells God! 

God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things...and (He) has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us...

...for in Him we live and move and have our being... (Acts 17:24-28)

"...on earth as it is in heaven..."

In our New Home - this spiritual realm - we are princes and princesses, protected warriors, living sacrifices (1 Peter 2:9; Ephesians 6:11; Romans 12:1-2).  But God is not far from each one of us; indeed, He is IN us by His Spirit (John 14:15-17).  And it is in His Loving Spirit, Who guides us into all truth (John 16:13), that we must walk, fight, and live (Galatians 5:16-18, 25).  This is our Real New Home.  Remain here, and we are safe and being sanctified; step outside of it (which we still can) and God has to allow the consequences (John 15:4-5) (even though He is still near, waiting for us to return - Luke 15:17-24)... 

So let us continue to not only remind one another of our New Home, but also to make sure we enjoy it together...in HIS Name...praising and worshiping...singing and dancing...laughing and weeping...until the day Jesus returns, to bring us to the final New Home He has prepared for us, the Reality of any earthly copy or representation, together with Him.  

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know...
 

...Jesus (says)..., “I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me.  If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”    (John 14:1-4, 6-7)
 
Hallelujah and amen! 

  

In His Love,  

Terri

Our New Home: The Altar

...A stately court
....Comforting, protective feathers

This next representation of our New Home with God may not be quite as appealing...to our flesh, that is.

"Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young - even Your altars, O Lord of hosts..." (Psalm 84:3)

     "This is the place," said Much-Afraid quietly.  "This is where I am to make my offering."  She went up to the altar and knelt down.  "My Lord," she said softly through the mist.  "Will you come to me now and help me to make my burnt offering as you have commanded me?"...
...At that the indistinct figure behind the altar stepped forward and said quietly, "I am the priest of this altar - I will take it out of your heart if you wish."...
...He came and stood beside her, his form indistinct and blurred by the mist, and then she continued entreatingly, "I am a very great coward.  I am afraid that the pain may cause me to try to resist you.  Will you bind me to the altar in some way so that I cannot move?  I would not like to be found struggling while the will of my Lord is done."  (Hinds' Feet on High Places, pp. 210, 212)

One of our Homes with God while still here on earth is an altar which He has prepared for each one of us on which we too must present our burnt offering (Romans 12:1).  Laying ourselves atop this "New Home" is usually not pleasant, and quite often can be tremendously painful - sometimes feeling like death itself (1 Corinthians 15:31).  But in order to have crucified our flesh (Galatians 2:20; Philippians 3:8), or old nature, which resists the transforming work of the powerful Holy Spirit in us (Galatians 5:17), we actually need to spend much of our time here living on the altar of God.  We don't have to, though.  Like for any of these New Homes, God gives us the choice whether we will remain in the court...beneath His wings...on the altar; but unless we cooperate with the work that WILL be done in us (Philippians 1:6) while abiding on the altar, our life here will be that much more wrought with anxiety, disorder, and confusion, and we will not be as prepared to enter into His Presence when Jesus comes to take us to our Final New Home (John 14:1-3).  However there will indeed come a time when we'll no longer require this New Home - the altar - for one day we WILL be fully transformed and eternally free!  So for now, let us ask Him for the help we need to secure ourselves on this Home, the altar, until God's preciously painful work in us is done. 

"...in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.  For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."  (1 Corinthians 15:52)

"Then He who sat on the throne said, 'Behold, I make all things new.'"  (Revelation 21:5)


In His Love, 
Terri