Verses: Psalms 132: 1 - 18
Song inspired by the chapter: Song has been uploaded from YouTube.com and is not my original.
My thoughts about the
verses:
In the times of David
and Solomon the location of the Ark of the Covenant was the home of God. The Ark was important because it contained
the very presence of God. God had
written on the tablets and therefor wherever the Ark lived the Spirit of God
lived.
Yet, times have changed
the Presence of God lives in the people of the Gospel Church. Those that have accepted Christ in their life
have the very Presence of God living in them.
We have become the temple that David dreamed for a Solomon built.
Yet, how do we live our
life. Do we live our life reflecting the
honor of God? Do we love others as much as God loves us? As the presence of God in the world we need
to look our lives showing love. Yet, how
many times do we look at people and decide that they do not deserve love from
us? I believe that God wants us to love
others just as much as God loves us.
We are not to decide who
deserves to feel the love of God. As the
presence of God in this world we must not be prejudice. We need to look as others as if they need the
love that we feel deep within. We need
to show love to all.
We have talked so much
lately about the discrimination that is happening today between races, sexual
orientation, religious beliefs. Yet, I
want to take us back to a moment in history that many people today are ashamed
of in our American heritage. The time of
slavery in which people thought they had the power to own people of another
race. They felt that they did not have
the right to freedom because they were less than them.
Yet, there were those
that felt that this was against the law of God.
They felt that God loved all people of the same time. They opened their door to help hide those
that were on the run from slavery. They
showed the compassion and the love for God that people were missing. They showed loved to all people by risking
their own lives because of their desire to get African Americans out of slave
states.
So what does this show
us that we should do today? We need to
forget about the differences that we have between us. Instead we need to open our lives so that
people can see and feel the love of God.
We need to stop discriminating.
We need to show all people love. We need to imagine what would happen if
others didn’t show us love.
We always need to
remember that God loves us. Because of
that love we need to love others. We
need to share our love without choosing who we will share it with. We need to be the opening arms of God. We need to show that Jesus’s love for
all. We are the presence of Jesus in the
world and we need to live our lives with that in mind.
Prayer:
Dear God we praise
you. We thank you for your enduring
love. We thank you for not putting obstacles
up between your loves. Help us tear down
the walls that we have built. Help us
show love to all people. Help us be the
true presence of your love to the world.
In the name of the Holy One we pray.
Amen
Questions:
Are you showing your love to all people? Are you being the true presence of God in
this world? Have you chosen to love with
open arms? What do you need to do today
to be a stronger presence of God?
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