Small Things with Great Love

Portal

June 11, 2009 at 2:01 am (Uncategorized)

The Jewish Temple.  

The desire to build the temple for the Jewish God was a deep seeded passion for the king after God’s own heart.  It was David’s desire and ultimately Solomon’s task to build the “house of God.”  And inside that extravagant and excellent house would rest the very epitome of the presence of God – the ark of the covenant.  It was in that house that God’s spirit would live.  And at the dedication of the temple, the Spirit did invade and fill up the whole temple with smoke.  The temple was designed to be a place where Heaven came to earth.  It was a place where the supernatural connected with the natural.  

Then, with some of the most beautiful symbolism my mind can comprehend, the New Testament says in 1 Corinthians 3:16 “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple…”  After the miracle of Christ’s divine life and his atoning death and resurrection, the Bible says that we are designed to be a place where Heaven comes to earth.  We  are the way that the supernatural connects with the natural.  Our lives are the portal into the miraculous and mysterious story of God. 

When I think of our existence, that my life is “just a vapor,” it feels deeply important that I use my life to be that portal.  It is the only thing that means anything.  I think of all the people around me whose lives are not portals for the supernatural.  Some chase money.  Some chase sex.  Some chase approval.  Some chase performance.  Some chase religion.  And then I wonder what it is that I chase.  

You know, in the Bible, there are so many stories of one person’s obedience that saved a whole nation or a whole family. 

Noah saved his family and all generations of humanity to follow because he built a boat in a dessert that had never seen rain.  

Moses saved all of Israel because he heeded the call of a burning bush and a God named “I AM”.

Ester saved all the Jews because she had the courage to use her influence in the face of total annihilation.  

And these are just a few.  Knowing that the obedience of one can change the outcome for so many makes me feel deeply responsible for my life to be one of obedience.  I pray that my desire to be an unhindered portal for the supernatural to invade the natural would make a difference for some.  I pray that Christ’s will would be done perfectly in my life, as it is in Heaven.  I commit to moving forward with Him.  

If you haven’t heard Israel Houghton’s “Moving Forward,” you need to.  Check out the YouTube:

This song has been my anthem of commitment to the Lord to be His temple, a portal into the supernatural.

A.W. Tozer – “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us . . . For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like.”