A couple of weeks ago we began a sermon series based on The Lord’s Prayer called The Great House of God. We are in the fourth week of the series and so far we have visited God’s living room where we sat in our favorite chair and gazed at the painting above the mantle of The Prodigal Son. We have thought about the foundation of the house. And we have gone upstairs into the observatory where we spent some time in God’s workshop.
Over the next several weeks, we will visit the chapel, the study, the kitchen, and the family room as well as several other rooms in the Great House of God. Now this house is not a house built with wood and bricks and mortar. This is a house built of thoughts and truths and convictions and hope. This is our spiritual house and every one of us has one. Just as a physical house exists to care for the body, so the spiritual house exists to care of our soul.
I would be willing to bet you’ve never seen a house more solid. The roof never leaks. The walls never crack. The foundation never trembles. I would be willing to bet you’ve never seen a castle more splendid. I’m sure the observatory stretched you. The chapel will humble you. The study will direct you. The kitchen will nourish you.
I have very excited about what God is telling us these first three weeks and I am sure over the next several weeks God will move among us; God will stretch us; God will speak to us; God will use us to spread His word.
I know that with this being the middle of summer and many people go to the lake on Sunday or camping over a Sunday, but I want to encourage you not to miss a Sunday as God takes us on a tour through His great house.
And don’t forget about the covenant we all made together that first week of this series. We all covenanted together to not just say the Lord’s Prayer but pray the Lord’s Prayer every morning and think about the rooms we have already visited. Not only that but think about the others rooms we will visit as we continue following Jesus through the Great House of God.
