Dream a little dream part 7

God's dream for me is not fantasy. It is a very real goal and has existed since before Adam and Eve and before He formed the earth into what He wanted in order to support life. He wants me to come to Him. The grandeur of His desires and dreams for me is shown through His desires and dreams for Israel in 1 Chronicles 22:19m; 1 Chronicles 24:15; and 1 Chronicles 28:10. God warns His people, including me centuries later to heed what He says about keeping His temple undefiled. (2 Chronicles 20:8; 2 Chronicles 29:18-21; 2 Chronicles 32:8-19) I share His dream. I have a dream to be in His heavenly sanctuary, and that is why I Am in the representation of it on earth. I have a dream to build as He wants me to build a part and parcel of it and to sit and sing with Hm in it, to bring Him myself as an offering, just to serve Him. (Nehemiah 10:30) He tells me in John 1 I am His child. I want to be with Him in His sanctuary (Isaiah 16:12; Psalms 150) I want to walk in those high places where He lives. (Psalms 74:3,7; Psalms 77:13; and Psalms 78:19) I have a dream that all who believe in Him believe in Him totally and in His way. I have a dream there are no divisions in His church. I want to be a part of Zion, as described by David. I want to be in that spiritual home that is represented here on earth by the church. Therefore I want to make sure that the church has nothing that could be confused with what is in the world. I want to build it to be like His temple of worship with internal glue and bonds. (Psalms 65:29, Psalms 48:9; Psalms29:9) It is where God sits on His throne, as in Isaiah 6:1, and it is from where He delegates all those who will demonstrate His great power. (Malachi 3:1) Only His power, only His power, not man's power. It is not where we should come but where we do come to see Him in all His reverence, in all His Magnificent Presence. It is where we come to realize that our power is not really our power after all. It in fact only comes from Him. (Jeremiah 50:5) But also I want to realize that I am His temple. Within me is built that when I put Him on in obedience. Because of this, I need to acknowledge Him daily, in this, not just when I am in His presence because after all I am never not in His presence. In that regard, daily praising Him becomes a part and parcel of my relationship with Him. (Luke 24:53; Psalms 9:11; Psalms 48:11; Psalms 74:2) and realize I am in His holy city when I join with my brethren in church. And when we are together, His Zion is completed. His temple has all the stones He requires of it, and not one of those needs to be renamed with our name or some preacher we admire but with His and His Son's holy name.

Dream a little dream (part 5)

How much do I believe God is who He says He is? Just how holy am I ready to believe He is? And how holy is He? What does separation mean? God told His people to be holy. (Exodus 25:8; Leviticus 19:30; Leviticus 21:12). And He expects that of me as well. God delegated a specific group to maintain the purity of the temple and to be the priests, the holy men of His people. (Numbers 3:28; Numbers 4:12; Numbers 7:9; Numbers 8:19; Numbers 10:21) God made this delegation of His people responsible for good leadership. And they were accountable for leading the people down the right paths. Now, because of Christ, I am part of that royal priesthood, as Peter says in 1 Peter 2:5. I and I alone am accountable for my choice of whether to be led by God or my own idols. If I am unclean, I cannot call myself part of His congregation, at least not without hypocrisy. (Numbers 19:20) I am to look after His physical house in the Church and His spiritual house in me. (I Chronicles 9:29)

The House of the LORD is a sacred entity, a sovereign place where we gather together. All of us must be careful not to destroy that image of all the nations flowing to it because of that holiness. (Isaiah 2:2; Jeremiah 17:26). It is the difference, the holiness, the highness that makes God so attractive, not whether He is able to perform miracles and pull things out of His hat or that He can be portrayed as Bozo or a bafoon. Men like Jeremiah gave up much for Him. That appears foolish but nonetheless all will be saved if they follow God's teachings. Hezekiah in Isaiah 37.14 knew the seriousness and solemnity of worship to God and his attitude was that same way. He brought his concerns to God, to His altar. And there will not always be those that agree. Some have accepted the style of life that led to bringing an "anything goes" attitude with the church and those tend to proclaim their right of expression. (Jeremiah 20:1,2; Jeremiah 26:2, 7) and it soon becomes apparent that we cannot tell who is of God and who is not. (Jeremiah 28:1,5). The House of the LORD is always something to be cherished, and many times men make it into a den of theives with their greed and polity. The only way to really come back is a humble succession. (Jeremiah 41:5)

I read in the Old Testamenta about David setting people over the House of the LORD (1 Chronicles 6:31, 1 Chronicles 23:14; 1 Chronicles 26:12) and how important the upkeep of the House of the LORD is. The House of the LORD represents physically the image of the Heavenly Realm that God sets before us, and if I am not careful, the image in the Temple or House of the LORD the message I give to other people may be confusing about God. Am I confused about my God? Are those I worship with also confused about the depth of God? Worship is a serious, reverent participation in which my brethren and I must purify ourselves spiritually, just as those approaching the Temple had to do physically. (2 Chronicles 33:15) Jesus even cautioned the Pharisees to clean the inside of the cups they bore, because while they looked shiny and fine, their insides were dirty and rotten and empty (Matthew 23:25). What I must guard against is that which would pollute the House of the LORD that is within me (1 Corinthians 3:16) and that which is physically on this earth will be taken care of by my God, who apportions me as I have faith and talent. (2Chronicles 33:15) What all and myself must guard against is, in trying to be all things to all people, not to forget the sanctification with which I am told by God to maintain in the statement, "Be ye holy as I am holy."