"The Beauty Within" -2

"How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!" (Psalms 84:1)
Actually this is a fitting way to start off speaking about the 'House of God,' especially if it's the place we long to end up! I simple way to look at the way this works, is to consider the Holy Spirit as not only our Comforter, our Helper, and our Guide, He is God abiding within us; therefore, we become a tabernacle of the Lord. These tents, in which our souls are transported around this earth, are just that, tents; temporary dwelling places that we mend and repair, sweep out, and whatever else we need to do to them to make them last until it's time to get our eternal dwelling place. Joined with us in this temporary tent, we have the Holy Spirit; who, by having His actual residence in Heaven, He gives us a new natural yearning for Home; not this home, but His Home. As many of you should know, this yearning, although it is a new natural yearning, it does not come naturally. That might not make any sense, whatsoever, not without having experienced the true yearning for Heaven. Our lives are filled with choices; each and every day, all day long, we are constantly faced with the choice of walking in the flesh or in the Spirit. When we walk in the flesh, we feed off of what the flesh desires, which are the things of this world; totally contrary to the desires we get from walking in the Spirit, which are the things of Heaven, or that are eternal. I can remember a teaching from Pastor Damian, I say about twenty years ago, where he spoke about something which may people in the room found hard to grasp, something hard to imagine what he imagined saying. It had something to do with his mother laying out his clothes for the day, and then his choice to put them on. If you will, the Holy Spirit's presence, direction, and power in our lives, is very much the same principle; it is natural that He lays out what we wear, but we must still choose to put it on...
""Don't store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be. Your eye is a lamp that provides light to your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light. But when your eye is bad, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is! No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."" (Matthew 6:19-24) NLT