this is Your house (5)

today we are revisiting an old topic.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?
(1 Corinthians 6:19a)

it's quite self explanatory. when we believe and receive our salvation, we receive JC into our life, and we will be baptized with the Holy Spirit, who dwells in us and becomes our helper throughout our life in this world. thus, in that sense, we are the "housing" of the Holy Spirit, which essentially is part of God Trinity, the Lord Himself. therefore, when we say "this is Your house", it could also mean we give ourself for the Lord to live in.

when God is in us, He works through us, as long as we keep learning to surrender our will, our skills, our everything to Him. we will call ourselves God-fueled people, for He is the sole source of our strength.

this interpretation spoke the strongest to me, i feel like this is what He really wants me to learn. learn to surrender, learn to be humble, and learn to be dependent on Him. learn to be sensitive, learn to listen to the Holy Spirit within, learn to live lead by the Spirit. often the Holy Spirit got shunned away, and since He is a gentle spirit and i am a bull-headed person, i always win the tug-o-war between His will and my stubborness.

when i finally realised that all this while i have put God aside most of the time, this story came into my mind, and wow, it really scared the shit out of me.

"When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation."
(Matthew 12:43-45)

hypothetically speaking, this is not impossible to happen to anyone of us, so, i thought, how if i grieved the Holy Spirit and God really left me and my heart now is just an empty house, unoccupied and ready to receive a new tenant, or worse, seven new tenants? noooooooooo!!! the consequences are severe! and it's just gross imagining not only one but seven yucky evil spirit inside of me! i don't want to be like that and i believe neither do you.

anyway, we know what to do...

it's not too late to invite God in, He loves us and he is waiting for people who is willing to say:

"Lord, come in, for this is Your house"