Where We Live

Ask someone where they live and you'll receive answers ranging from the name of their hometown to their street address to a description of their neighbor and their home.  Take a step back from the personal point of view and we claim planet Earth as our home, a home shared with all living beings, irrespective of creed, culture or degree of sentience.
  Take a metaphysical view of the question and we recognize that our true home is "the house not built with hands" in IICo.5:1.  We are so much more than this physical body because we are "the temple of the Living God." Our spiritual home is not defined by space or time nor is it limited to the physical body.  Jesus used the word house in several examples and often used the phrase "he who has ears to hear, let him hear!" as a sign post to deeper meaning.

Jesus said that "a house divided against itself will not stand" when the Pharisees accused Him of casting out demons and healing by Beelzebub.  Our house is divided when we hold onto old beliefs while trying to believe "the Kingdom of God is within you." Luke 17:21  Our house is divided when pray for forgiveness while still holding a smoldering grudge against another.  Our house is divided when we declare "peace on earth, good will to all" while planning for war.

Jesus used the word house to represent the receptive consciousness of a man in Mt. 7:24-25

Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of Mine  and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock; and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Paralleling the awakening consciousness of Peter when he recognized that Jesus was "the son of the Living God" with the quote above, we come to understand that a life built upon the foundation of faith and the application of the teachings of Jesus is our purpose in life.  We have creative control over the house we build in consciousness one thought, one word at a time.

Rev. Claudia Naylor