Psalms 132:2-5. How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, norgo up into my bed; I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
David remembered that he had built himself a palace, but he wished even more ardently to build a palace for his God, a house for the celebration of his worship: " an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob." But where can a worthy house be built for God ? Where can there be made a fit dwelling place for the Most High ? He filleth all things, yet all things cannot contain him. There is but one dwelling place of God, it is in Christ Jesus, for " in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." Oh ! how we ought to thank God that he has provided himself a fitting dwelling place in the person of his dear Son, in whom all believers also are builded together for a habitation of God through the spirit. As for the ark of the covenant, it had long ago in David’s day dwelt in obscurity.
Psalms 132:2-5. How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, norgo up into my bed; I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
David remembered that he had built himself a palace, but he wished even more ardently to build a palace for his God, a house for the celebration of his worship: " an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob." But where can a worthy house be built for God ? Where can there be made a fit dwelling place for the Most High ? He filleth all things, yet all things cannot contain him. There is but one dwelling place of God, it is in Christ Jesus, for " in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." Oh ! how we ought to thank God that he has provided himself a fitting dwelling place in the person of his dear Son, in whom all believers also are builded together for a habitation of God through the spirit. As for the ark of the covenant, it had long ago in David’s day dwelt in obscurity.