Amazing Love

Then have them make a sanctuary (holy place, set apart) for me, and I will dwell among them.
--Exodus 25:8

How amazing is God? He loves us. Of course He loves us; He made us! In fact, the sole reason why mankind was created was so that He could fellowship with us. So imagine His heartbreak when He had to banish His creation due to sin. How gut-wrenching was that? I've had friends with children describe the anguish they experience when they discipline their children. How much more so was it for God?  

But because of His amazing love for us, God found a way to reside and fellowship with His people. First, God's presence took up residence within the nomadic Tabernacle. Then He established a more premenant location within the Temple in Jerusalem. But that wasn't good enough. God had designed us to be in close, intimate relationship with him and so these temporary facilities had to be done away with. And so they were, once atonement for our sins was paid for by the death of Jesus on the cross. But the story doesn't end here. At some point in the future, we will again find ourselves, fully restored and renewed, and living in the Kingdom upon the return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ.