GODS ABODE BY: APTL DR CHUKWUEMEKA GEORGE.

 Getting to Know JEHOVAH’S Dwelling place is a proof of intimacy. The value to be attached to every relationship will depend on how close such relationship portrays. Nobody will claim to be in a serious relationship if such relationship does not have a home knowledge background. GOD is super natural to the extent that HIS presence is reasonably felt in three dimensions; HE is omniscience [Knowing all things], omnipresent [Present everywhere] and omnipotent [Having total Power]. Accounts of the book of Isa.Chpt.66:1 says:-   Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?. GOD does not dwell in a house builded by man, HE neither has a geographical location nor any directional historical proof where HE had lived in the past, present or in the future to come. HE is simply every where,seeing and over seeing the entire things that human beings that HE made by HIMSELF and in his own image are cable of. There are basically three kinds of existing kingdoms namely 1]. Kingdom of GOD, Comprising of GOD the father as the HEAD of the entire kingdom, Jesus Christ the son and apparent sole head [Heir] of the entire kingdom and in fact the overall by divine order, the holy spirit and the host of Angels. While the kingdom of Satan is made of Satan himself as the head of the entire principalities and powers, Evil spirits, demons and a host of other falling Angels. The last but not the least is the kingdom of man [Earth], which kingdom is made up man and it is the Centre focus of both GOD who is the supreme head of the heavens and the earth and Satan who HE hauled down from the heavens and unto the earth, “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning star! Isa 14:12”. The aforementioned kingdoms ie GODs and the Satan’s exists in the spiritual realm but there presence are actively and perfectly felt by man, and they do influence the doings of man in every circumstances negatively and positively.  “O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. JER 10:23 ,   Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,”1Peter 5 :8.” God dwells in the hearth of Men and only Men who are in HIS good book via HIS son Jesus Christ who is our lord and personal savior. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me”. Rev 3:20 (ASV). Irrespective of GODs status as the sole creator of Man, HE does not impose HIMSELF upon us. Having giving us the powers to choose what suits us at any particular point in time but whatever choices we may make has in it some consequences as well as reword in offer. Letting GOD into our hearth is not directly beneficial to GOD, it is for our own best of interests simply because without HIM we remain perpetual victims of   our arch rival enemy “Satan”. The logic herein is that we sold our right of ownership of the earth and its content on that day we disobeyed GOD “1b. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? ² And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat: ³ but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. ⁴ And the serpent said unto the woman Ye shall not surely die: ⁵ for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. ⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. ⁷ And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.⁸ And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of the garden.      ⁹ And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou? ¹⁰ And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.  
     ¹¹ And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? ¹² And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. ¹³ And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.” Gen 3:1b -12 (ASV)”.  The necessity of letting GOD into our hearth the second time became apparent on account of the sin of disobedient against HIM via Satan who deceitfully brought us under its control. ^“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16 (ASV)”. GOD hates sin but does not hate sinners, this is why HE allowed the coming into the world of HIS son to deliver us from the vice grip of Satan who is the author of sins. So many faiths had denied the logic of Christ being the savior of the world, it is understandable because they are still under the influence of Satan having not come to terms with the reality that GOD does exist and does rule over the affairs of Men. Separating sin from our lives is renewing our mandate with GOD, mandate to keep to HIS ordinances, work in HIS holiness and abiding by HIS tenets. ”But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:” John 1:12 (KJV). When we renew our mandate with HIM via accepting Jesus Christ as our lord and savior, HE becomes part of us that is HE begins to direct our day to day doing. We no longer live on our selves, HE becomes the hope of our glory, HIS Spirit indwells in us warding off evils and other vices of Satan. Most of all we become HIS HOLY Place of abode. ‘Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?’  1 Cor 3:16 (KJV). NOW the big question is . does GOD dwell in you!, can we as a generation face GOD with this claim?.