There is a house, one that sits directly within the water.  As we drove across the forever-long bridge, I saw the house sitting outside my car window, surrounded by water.  ‘Whatever is the reasoning for placing a house out in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay?  There were no boats tied to the wooden stilts that held the house above the water.  The house was simply sitting—THERE—all alone.

Of course I took a photo.

Then, as I found myself studying the photo, I saw that really, it was not one structure but two:  a larger house on the left, a corridor path, and then on the right, a smaller structure.  A His & Her House OR A Mother-in-law’s House OR quite possibly, a My House with a walkway to God’s House.

In looking back at my photographs today from a most enjoyable Saturday, I came across this photo, and then as I began to read God’s Word, that question came to me—

• Is that how we (who have invited Jesus) into our hearts should allow our house to sit—all alone—separated—surrounded by water—ostracized from mankind?

& also,

• Is that how we (who are the children of God) whose Holy Spirit fills our being, should ever allow our body (our holy temple of God) to remain—all alone—separated—yes, separated by water—allowing ourselves to drive apart from God, AS IF WE ARE SAVED & THAT IS ENOUGH?

Let us never drift away from God!

Never let us allow our Being (God’s Temple) to Drift All Alone & Apart from Walking Close Beside God!

Never let us allow Our House to Become All Alone!

Let us open our hearts and read what the LORD GOD our FATHER speaks to us today.

In studying the Bible, we find that God’s Salvation (the justification) is just the first step that Almighty God has for each person.  After we become HIS, then we are to grow, then we are to draw closer to the Father, then we are to allow Jesus to walk close beside us every moment of every day we live.  This spiritual growth, this maturing through the Holy Spirit of God is the process of Sanctification.  We become the Saints of God at the moment of our salvation; then God begins the process of making us holy.  Only God can do this!

We should never want to allow our house, our body (the temple of God) to become afloat, or to become positioned on wooden stilts sitting all alone among the waters of life.

We should also never want to allow our house to become separated by a corridor where God is placed away from our day-to-day, where we find ourselves walking across the corridor to spend time with God and then walk back to our house and live-out the rest of our day.

• Thank You God for this reminder today.
• Thank You God for the reminder within the Bible:  “What is man that You think of him?”
• Thank You God “that You are concerned about him” (for each one of us, for all Your creation, for every single person—all 7.9 Billion who walk the face of the earth).