"Habitat for Divinity"
2 Samuel 7:5-6
“Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: Are you the one to build me a house to live in? I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent and a tabernacle.”
Matthew 13:1-8
"[Jesus] told them many things in parables, saying: ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."
In the days of King David there was a need for rootedness, for the house of God to be made more permanent than an ark borne in a tent by a wandering people. Yet what became fixed was mobilized again by Jesus' reminder that the only permanent habitat for Divinity was in the hearts of human beings, putting the work on us to prepare ourselves to house the truth of God.
How will we create a space worthy of Divine abiding? When the "seeds" of God's truth are sown on us, will be protected by good soil or become blanched by the harshness of life? Will they be overgrown by other concerns or find the nourishment they need to bear fruit? God still requires rootedness - how's our soul's soil?
“Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: Are you the one to build me a house to live in? I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent and a tabernacle.”
Matthew 13:1-8
"[Jesus] told them many things in parables, saying: ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."
In the days of King David there was a need for rootedness, for the house of God to be made more permanent than an ark borne in a tent by a wandering people. Yet what became fixed was mobilized again by Jesus' reminder that the only permanent habitat for Divinity was in the hearts of human beings, putting the work on us to prepare ourselves to house the truth of God.
How will we create a space worthy of Divine abiding? When the "seeds" of God's truth are sown on us, will be protected by good soil or become blanched by the harshness of life? Will they be overgrown by other concerns or find the nourishment they need to bear fruit? God still requires rootedness - how's our soul's soil?
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