Lent: ... dwelling place for God.

The apostle Paul calls us spiritually a dwelling place for God.  He also said, "So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God." 

I often find it difficult to believe that I am a dwelling place of God. "Me? this little ole me?" is much easier way to think of my self.  And then you know what follows that? not taking good care of my body, mind and spirit. When I am reminded of what God thinks of me or what I am to God, it is a lot easier to care for my self.  I hope and pray that each and all of you my friends take good care of your selves because you are God's spiritual dwelling place. 

Prayer: Almighty God, thank you for loving us all the time.  Thank you for dwelling in each and every one of us and even calling us members of your household.  Help us to be gentle and kind to your dwelling place. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Ephesians 2:11-22

One in Christ

11 So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called ‘the uncircumcision’ by those who are called ‘the circumcision’—a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands— ¹²remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. ¹³But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. ¹⁵He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, so that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, ¹⁶and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. ¹⁷So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; ¹⁸for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, ²⁰built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. ²¹In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; ²²in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling-place for God.

Also: Psalm 95 Exodus 16:9-21