I recently attended a Kat Kerr conference. One of the revelations she tells of involves the following verse:
Psalm 139:13-14
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well."
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well."
As I pondered and marveled at this revelation...I am quickened to the Lord telling me, "My words are literal." You know the Lord doesn't try to get one over on us... He is a beautiful wordsmith but he is so direct with his speech... Now, that I have said that let me say this... He is so direct with his speech at times that our minds just can't comprehend such incredible things... Therefore, he speaks also in parables...dark speech...Even the symbolic speech that he uses is literally translated.
Hearing of this revelation the Lord quickened me to this verse:
"Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us ?"
Earlier in the year I was reading James and I stopped on this verse...
HEARD: "Read it again."
So, I did. I just couldn't grasp what the Lord was wanting me to understand... So, I read it again... and again...
HEARD: "Why? Why do I jealously long for the spirit I caused to dwell in you"?
He then opened my understanding and caused me to understand.. Because the spirit he caused to dwell within us is His....It is part of HIM. This spirit that was knitted together in our flesh at the time we were being woven in our mothers' womb came from inside of the God of this universe...Therefore, our bodies are literally the temple of the Holy Spirit...The Living God!
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Even before we accept Christ as our Savior, God placed part of Him inside of us...We are literally God's offspring and He longs, jealously, for that spirit that He knitted together with our flesh to return to Him when we die. Wow~ Doesn't that give you a much deeper understanding of the call on your life to live holy and pure before Him?