A Resting Place

1 Chronicles 14-15; Psalms 132; Matthew 18 

“’I will allow no sleep to my eyes, no slumber to my eyelids, till I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob…arise, O Lord, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.”

Psalm 132:4, 5, 8

David’s passion for the presence of the Lord became a priority in his desire to build a temple for God. David desired a dwelling and a resting place for the glory of God. Later, it was the prophet Isaiah who heard the Lord ask the same question, “Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be (Isaiah 66:1)?” The Lord’s answer to his own question was, “This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word” (Isaiah 66:2). While David looked for a place to house God’s presence, the Lord looked for a person. David was that person, and so can we be the temple of the Lord, containing the glory of the “Mighty One”. Yet, we focus more on the buildings of worship than the people of worship, to our own poverty of spirit. The Lord seeks worshippers whose whole lives are offered to him. Becoming a resting place for the Lord requires us to enter his rest and live with a surrendered will.

Will we make that our priority?

“Lord Jesus, I am your temple, for your glory.”