Our Hearts, His Footstool

UV 789/10,000 Our Hearts, His Footstool Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? Isaiah 66 v 1 Each believer builds a house for the Lord out of all that he or she does, speaks, feels and thinks. We build with thought bricks, feeling bricks, word bricks and action bricks. These are the bricks that are fully baked and not half baked in the kiln of our devotion and faith. Our bodies are His living temples in which He resides since He himself has carefully crafted our bodies and minds and breathed His spirit into us. Scripture says that He does not dwell in temples that human hands have built. When we and our families fear, believe and serve the Lord, our hearts become His home and our homes become His footstool on which He rests His feet. No wonder the letters of the word “earth” also form the word, “ heart”. All that the Lord treasures in the earth is found in the human heart. The Lord is asking each individual who wants to connect with Him on a constant basis, “ where is the house you have built for me? Where is my resting place in your lives?” Having said that He builds the house for us, He finds the resting place. The decisions of the Lord are sovereign and all are bound by it. The decisions are taken on His throne in heaven but it is executed on the Earth in the course of our lives. He loves to move and mingle among us. Our prayers become His decisions as it rises to the throne of God from the footstool of the earth, our hearts, minds and homes, surrounded by the incense of our praises, worship and thanksgiving. We need to convert our burdens, worries, anxieties and needs into prayers and the Lord will turn our prayers into answers, solutions, realizations, satisfaction and fulfilment. Prayers are footstool level conversations with God that turn into throne room level decisions. His presence fills our lives even as the robe of the Lord filled the throne room of heaven. He builds patterns and mosaics out of the various thoughts, emotions, actions and events of our lives. When the Lord enabled us to build a house, we told ourselves that this house is dedicated to the Lord and we symbolically called it “ The Tabernacle.” He has often told us that it is His church, His resting place. He said that every wall is anointed by me and my eyes are on your walls. “You have many people guarding your house from outside but I have many more guarding it from within.” The Lord of the universe, of heaven and earth cannot be contained within the four walls of a house. What He delights in is our constant fellowship with Him. Fellowship with God is the very purpose of creation. The spirit of man communed with God. But when he sinned or fell short of God’s standards, when he first believed God to be a liar, when He distrusted His words, the spirit that God breathed into man was taken away. Man began to live primarily on the physical, intellectual and social dimension. Religion is no substitute for the spiritual dimension. That dimension was restored by the work of Jesus. Jesus rebuilt us as a house for the Trinity. Interestingly, the name JeHoVah contains “Je” for Jesus, Ho or “I Am Who I Am” for our Father in heaven and “Vah” for the breath of God or the Holy Spirit. Jesus remains the cornerstone, the keystone, the capstone to connect humanity with God. He is also the cornerstone, the keystone, the capstone of our lives and our homes. He connects the ligaments, muscles and bones of our inner being. Jacob in his early sojourn on earth used stones as his pillows or resting place but for us who believe it is the name of Jesus that is our resting place. Prateep V Philip