When a person or a family buy a house, it's always a reason for joy, there is a sense of pride in ownership, knowing that It belongs to you, and that, even if you owe most of it to the bank, it is registered in your name, you are paying into your own, you're investing on your dwelling for now and for the future.
When a child is conceived in the womb of a woman, there is a spiritual act which takes place together with conception; God creates a soul to inhabit the house which begins to take shape in the womb.
Now, conception is the creation of a life, a soul which God conceives. What a man and woman do in the natural sets in motion the creation of a new body which will serve as a dwelling for that soul.
And it does not matter what color or shape or size or sex that body is, and it does not matter whether it is short or tall or perfect or faulty, missing a limb or an eye or its nose, the soul God's created is always complete, it's always whole, it's always perfect. And that soul comes equipped with a set of skills and endowed with a preset purpose designed by God.
Now, our fallen nature has caused our surroundings, and society at large to see us for what we are in the natural, in the exterior, and we have attributed to the body all of the value of a life; in other words, we have transferred to the house the values of the individual. This is equivalent to us saying I am my house and my house is me! This has caused us to become enslaved by our bodies and its natural cravings. Like a man owning a broken house, we spend our days seeking to please the desires of our bodies, trying to fix the cracks and the holes and the dripping pipes.
The thing is, in the natural, we can own a house made of bricks and mortar, and dwell in it for as long as we can afford it, and even pass it on to our children, but In the spiritual we are always renters, our body, the house in which we live is not our own, is just a temporary dwelling were we are allowed to stay for a season, and in order to exercise the skills we've been given, and to fulfill the set purpose God has assigned to us, and whether we exercise our skills, and whether fulfill our purpose or not, at the end of our journey we are going to be evicted.
Something we do need to think about is the fact that we do have a choice of dwelling when we vacate our present house, and we can either be upgraded or downgraded, that is entirely up to us.
When king David was affirmed in his kingdom and finally build a cedar house, a palace for himself, he saw the need to build a house for the Lord, and set his heart to it, (2 Samuel 7) yet the Lord told him he was not the one to build a house for him. And He added; "The Lord declares to you that the Lord himself will establish a house for you". In his natural thinking David understood that his kingdom would be transferred to his children and that his son would build a house for the Lord, yet God was revealing that He would create a flesh in which to dwell in our Lord Jesus Christ, a natural descendant of David, yet a spiritual offspring of God.
"He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever." (v 13)
And Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. And furthermore, he says: Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. We live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. (2 Corinthians 5:6-10).
A House made of wood or brick and mortar may last hundreds of years, yet nothing which lives in the natural lasts forever, in the same way our body, the house we live in, is also temporary, and it will last up to 70, 80, maybe 100 years if we do not destroy it before. There is an eternal dwelling which God has prepared for you, a home in which you are meant to live forever.
Jesus tells us: In My Father's house there 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. (John 14:2-3 NKJV).
Take this words to heart, and realize that our body is a slowly decaying house, and that no matter how many repairs you do, it will soon collapse and we will move on to a new house, and I must announce to you that only Jesus can lead you to your eternal dwelling of peace and blitz and joy everlasting, any other option leads to darkness and doom!.
As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him and His righteousness to children's children, (Psalm 103:15-17)
Rev. Jose A. Luna
A Friend Servant of Christ Jesus
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