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The Bedside Watchman
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October 15th -- John 7
LIVING WITH GOD
LIVING with God has its counterpart: God dwelling with us. "Certainly I will be with thee," was true for Moses in his special mission. It is true for each of us, if we trust Him, in His purpose with us. "In my Father's house are many mansions", is a teaching for the future and a teaching for today. Indeed, the Lord puts the matter even more plainly and in a way we all can understand: "If a man love me he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him" (John 14:23). God at home with us! How marvellously condescending is this picture of the work of God and His Son!
If then we find this complex life of tensions and pressure a source of distress and of uncertainty, let us learn the lesson of living with God and see Him in every room of our lives, in every part of the day, through every window and door. So it was with Jesus who, having no permanent abode, no established residence, was more surely based than any man who has ever lived, and dwelt always with God, and God with him. Thus, at the end of one of his long days we catch a glimpse of the meeting between Father and Son:"And every man went unto his own house, but Jesus went to the mount of Olives" (John 7:53-8: 1).
HARRY TENNANT, The Christadelphian, 1969, page 269