The Epiphany of Indwelling

UV 1141/10,000 The Epiphany of Indwelling
And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

Leviticus 26 v 11

God promises to set His dwelling place in our midst. He promised to pitch His tent in our colony. Under the Old Covenant He was tabernacled or housed in our midst but under the new Covenant, He is tabernacled not just with us but in us. When we travel, we carry God with us. When we go to work, He accompanies us. When we encounter difficulties, His comforting and strengthening presence is closest to us. No wonder the frequency of difficulties in a believer’s life is apparently much higher. When we are aware of God’s presence, His Spirit residing in our physical bodies and minds, our emotions will at such an intensity that nothing else can evoke such a feeling of exuberance, joy and gladness of heart and mind. When God inhabits us, nothing and no one can inhibit us. Nothing can limit us or hinder us.

When He dwells with us, all is well and swell with us. If He loves us, we are truly loved. If He hates or abhors us, we are truly damned and forsaken. How passionate, sensitive, responsive and obedient are we in our relationship with our Creator-Father-Redeemer-Friend- Master- Helper indwelling God? The response to this question will determine how much God loves or abhors us. God will be our end all and be all. He will lead us from moment to moment, experience to experience, blessing to blessing like the flow of water in a canal. When God resides in us, His sovereign will and Word will prevail in our lives and produce its effect on our bodies, minds, spirits, relationships, our communication and our legacy.

When He dwells with us, our planting and our harvest in all domains will be blessed. When He dwells with us, our yoke of bondage in this world is broken forever. We will lie down in peace in our land and not be afraid. Neither violence of man or beast or nature can overtake us. We will be like a dove that has taken refuge in a storm in the crevice of a great Rock. Our souls will be inter-twined with the soul of the Lord, producing an epiphany that touches all who come in contact with us.

Prateep V Philip