God making his home with us

I once read a book by Max Lucado called, "God came near" what an amazing book. It talked about how God came near to us through Christ and his sacrifice for our sins. It was Christ who made it all possible for God to come near to us. Just the other day I was reading my daily scripture and it had this verse, "All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them" John 14:23. That last part really made me take a long hard look at my relationship with the holy trinity and myself. They will come and make their home with us. Think about that for a moment. The creator of the universe coming to make his home with you. This seems to have stood out to me in a large and personal way. God showing up at your door with his bag and saying, "can I come and live with you. Do day to day life with you?" Wow! That is just amazing. (As I smile real big writing this.) Tonight, as I remembered this scripture and seeing the sin within me, I wanted to put up this barricade over the door of my heart so that God would not want to come to knock on my door. How sad is that? Peter after Jesus had instructed him to cast his nets out one more time at the end of a long hard fruitless day and Peter obliged Jesus and does just that. He ends up calling other boats over to help with the catch because there had been so many fish. Peter then looks up at Jesus and says, "Away from me Lord, I am a sinful man" I believe we all may have felt or said just those words to Jesus at one time or another. But tonight, God made himself known to me. He really came into my office where I went to pray and do my nightly devotions and he made himself known to me. I was in awe of his presence. I took down every thorny bush, every nailed up cross board, and any other object to ward God away from the door of my heart and invited him in. He never accused me of any sin that was committed today. He forgave me of that sin as I confessed them to him, I was so thankful that he came by and sat at my devotion table and had spiritual dinner with me. He loved on me and shared with me his heart of compassion, then to top it all off, my wife, my gift from God came and joined me and just sat beside me during this time. My day ended so well before I went off to bed. What a great day to have the creator of the universe come and make his home with me. What about you? What things have you been without peace in or felt abandoned from? Maybe you have felt the way I have felt and wanted to put up a barricade over your heart hoping that God would not come and want to be invited in because you have some type of sin in your heart. It is worth taking that barricade down and letting him in. It is all worth it.