But will God indeed live on earth?
Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain you,
much less this temple I have built. (1 Kings 8:27)
I was just meditating on those words this morning. The heavens cannot contain God. Yet by his grace, God chose to enter Solomon’s temple and fill it with his glory. (10-11).
Hundreds of years later, God came and actually lived on this earth as a man, dwelling among us.
Jesus himself was the temple of God on earth, and all of God’s fullness, all his glory dwelt in him. (John 1:14, 2:20; Colossians 1:19)
But now, we are God’s temple.
The heavens can’t contain God, and yet he chooses to dwell in individual human hearts, in all who put their faith in Jesus. (John 14:23; Ephesians 3:17; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
Because we are his temple, God has his eyes on us day and night, moment to moment, day to day, watching over us and hearing all our prayers and petitions.
And he says of us, “My name will be there.” (1 Kings 8:28-29)
Father, will you indeed live on earth?
Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain you.
How is it that you would choose to dwell in me
Watching over me and hearing me
And calling me your own?
Your love is truly amazing.
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