Gods Dwelling Place

1 Kings 8:27-30 (NIV)
"But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built! Yet give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy, O Lord my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence this day. May your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, this place of which you said, 'My Name shall be there,' so that you will hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place. Hear the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.




God's dwelling-place: -- Collins the free-thinker met a simple countryman one Sunday morning going to church. He asked him where he was going. "To church, sir," was the man's reply. "And what do you do when you get there" said the free-thinker. "I worship God." "Pray tell me," said Collins, "whether your God is a great God or a little God?" "He is both," said the man. "How can He be both?" said Collins. "Why, sir," was the answer, "He is so great that the heavens cannot contain Him, and so little that He can dwell in my heart." Collins afterwards declared that this simple answer from the countryman had more effect upon his mind than all the books the learned men had written against him.

(Quiver.)

I am so glad to serve a God that cant be contained in all the heavens, yet can live in my heart.