One thing I have asked of the LORD, this one thing I seek:

That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,

that I may gaze upon His beauty,

and inquire of Him in His temple.

Psalm 27:4

The House of the Lord is my home; I have none other.

When the Israelites were allotted fields on their entering into the Promsied Land, every tribe was given an inheritence, except for the priests, the Levites.  They received houses to live in, but not fields.  Their portion was the temple.

Today, we are a Kingdom of Priests to our Lord.  We live in a world to which we do not call home, which Paul likens to a crucifixion.  We are crucified to the world, and it to us (Galatians 6:14).

We have no part in the world, nor any delight in what it takes delight in.

He who loves the world, and the things of the world does not have the love of the Father in him.

1 John 2:15

Jesus showed us The Way.  The point is not to empty your life of everything for the sake of everything, but it is to get as much of the Good Thing as possible.

There is only one thing that is required in this life.  All that we strive for, all we look up to, is a passing shadow, and a vaporous bit of dust.  If the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love, then what does success in business mean?  What does a six or seven figure income really point to?  Except, maybe, a drivenness, and a blindness to love, and to the Spirit.

Why is it so hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom?  Partly because he spends all his heart energies in amassing wealth, instead of learning love.

Jesus said this:

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6:21

The whole focus of the Gospels, the point of the parables is simple.  If you simply get a hold of Jesus, see Him for who He really is, and in excitement over just the glimpse you have of Him, lose your entire world to find Him, your Father in Heaven will out pour even greater works than Jesus did Himself (John 14:12).  What are the obstacles?  Well, not understanding in the first place, for one.  Not getting past your own hardness of heart for another…  And, then what?  Letting other things get in the way….  Why not just sell all?

One thing I have desired….  Sounds alot like, When your eye is single, without folds, your whole body is full of light (Matthew 6:22).  Sounds alot like, He keeps in perfect peace Him whose mind is stayed on Him (Isaiah 26:3).  It sounds alot like a simple little, smaller than all the rest, kind of like a seed, that if you plant it, it grows into the largest of all those other plants.

And what happens?  The birds of the air nest in it!  These aren’t the same as those mean birds that wanted to steal the seed…  No, while there ARE unclean birds,  there are also clean birds too.  What else, in the heavens, also has wings and feathers?  What else would be ministers unto the heirs of salvation? (Hebrews 1:14).

Jesus said this to a man in whom there was no deceit, no falsehood, and without folds:  You shall see angels ascending and descending upon the Son of Man (John 1:51).  Those same angels ascend and descend upon us, when we are in right relationship with God, living in His Presence and His Kingdom, and living a life of prayer and worship daily.  They are our inheritance also.  They are our covering, and our ministers.

Worship is the intentional giving over of onesself to another.  The Hebrew word picture is that of a dog licking his master’s feet.  Worship and adoration makes no sense to the world, as much as the love of the lover makes no sense except to himself, and his beloved.  Though he gave all he had for love, it still has no estimation in his eyes (Song of Songs 8:7).

I’m not so much interested in fighting a battle as I am loving a lover.  I fight when its there, to get to the place of His love.  When I lose myself in Him, there is nothing left of me.  In all the struggles to enter His Kingdom and His Rest, it is in that place of total abandon in which I am totally free.

The world could never recognize this freedom, and this bliss.  They see the hardships, the austerities, the lack and the desperation, and they want no part of it.  But, what is death in the flesh is absolutely life in the Spirit.

If He’s really worth it, why not let it all go?  If He’s really all that good, why settle for anything less than absolute, total, complete, and Eternal Possession.  You are His Possession.

Even Esther, when she went before the King, wore only what the King’s servant Hegai suggested, and she won the King’s heart.  Smart girl.  Listen to the King’s inside man.  If only we would do that, and let Him be our One Thing.