Psalm 90

Well, that seemed like a no-brainer title for this blog, especially since Psalm 90 begins this way: “Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.” (vs 1-2)

Those seem like such easy words to say; yet, what does it mean for God to be our home? A home is the place you dwell in. Hopefully, it’s a place that holds wonderful, warm memories. Hopefully, it’s a place where you feel loved and accepted, able to just be yourself.

Whether people know it or not, God is our home. Life is only found in Him. We can’t go somewhere outside of Him and find life. We can’t cut ourselves off from the Source and live. We are all dwelling in God as surely as we dwell in our own homes.

It is interesting to me, then, to think about the fact that God says He also wants to dwell in us. Paul wrote, “Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God?” (1 Cor 6:19) It makes me think of how Jesus asked His disciples to be one, as He was one with the Father: “Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? …Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.” (Jn 14:10, 19-20)

Of course, God is not dependent on us for life as we are dependent on Him for life. As the author wrote, God is “from everlasting to everlasting,” and we are dust. But God does give us the opportunity to voluntarily invite Him into our lives—to make Him at home in us just as He has made us at home in Him.

You are in Him. Is He in you?