Your House

Hooray, for new house stuff!  My friend got a new kitchen a few years ago – it doesn’t even look like the same room.  Last year, I got new living room furniture and sometimes I just stand and admire it then I say to myself, “don’t just stand there admiring it – go enjoy it.”  Next, myself agrees with me and I settle into my “queen chair,” then I’m done!

What’s in your house … your spiritual house?  Sadly, many Christians live as if their spiritual house is empty.  Imagine hosting friends in your home and there’s no furniture or light or refreshments for your guests.  Psalm 112 describes the heart where Christ is King, “Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever. Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous.” (V.3-4)   What foolishness we face our struggles with fear and wonder; we’re of a steady heart because our trust is in the LORD (V.8).  Spurgeon wrote, “Other men have not your God to fly to; they have never proved His faithfulness as you have done, and it is no wonder if they are bowed down with alarm and cowed with fear: but you profess to be of another spirit; you have been begotten again unto a lively hope, and your heart lives in heaven and not on earthly things; now, if you are seen to be distracted as other men, what is the value of that grace which you profess to have received? Where is the dignity of that new nature which you claim to possess?”  Hear, hear – we are of a different spirit!  Believer, your house is not empty – it is full [beyond measure] with God’s untold wealth and immeasurable riches.  He wants to reveal Himself not through the wringing of hands but through a steady heart. “Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments! His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.” (Psalm 112:1)  Do you know what’s in your house!  You are rich – rich - rich!  Rejoice in it and live like it!