Words Of Encouragement To STart The Day ( Thursday 1/29/09)

It Is A Posture Not A Place...

Psalm 63:1-3 (Amplified Bible)
1) O GOD, You are my God, earnestly will I seek You; my inner self thirsts for You, my flesh longs and is faint for You, in a dry and weary land where no water is.
2) So I have looked upon You in the sanctuary to see Your power and Your glory.
3) Because Your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You.

I remember when I was growing up, and we use to speak of the Holy Spirit we use to make reference to Him as being an it. I remember my Grandmother and others correcting us saying " The Holy Spirit is not a thing, He is a gentleman," She use to remind us that the Holy Spirit was not a thing, but that He was a Him. More recently people are taking staycations, (they are vacations you take from work, but you do not go anywhere) as I was recently told it is just "the thought of being," away from work, that puts you in the mind set of a vacation. Often we encounter things that are not what we assume them to be. They are not physical in nature but they are a state of mind and heart that cause us to obtain freedom from something or freedom to be something we may not have been prior to.

As I previously stated the story of my mom and I having a conversation in the car after work and that song coming on the radio and changing the entire atmosphere. It lifted us out of the trials of the day and into a moment, a time and space where we were freed from the heaviness of the day and free to enter into His rest. Sanctuary is not a place it is a posture, a position that allows God access to us. It is a state and condition of the heart that affords God to come in and provide a place of refuge for His people. It give us access to God as it gives Him access to us as well. Being in a posture of sanctuary is a yielding within ones self that signals God that our hearts are fixed on Him and our minds are made up to serve Him.

Just as worship is a posture we can be in anywhere we find ourselves, so is the posture of His sanctuary. It is a place where God meets man and man receives from God. It is a place where we bow our hearts and open our Spirit man to receive from God. It is a place be free and to be freed. Won't you bow down and worship, laying yourself prostrate before the Almighty, in your mind and heart, so he knows that His sactuary is there for Him to abide with you in.