{"id":27708,"date":"2013-05-05T09:44:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T13:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/making-a-home-with-god\/"},"modified":"2013-05-05T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T13:44:53","slug":"making-a-home-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/making-a-home-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a home with God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">&#8216;My Father and I will come to him&#8217; &#8211; that is to say, to the holy of heart &#8211; says the Son of God, &#8216;and we will make our home with him.&#8217; It seems to me that when the psalmist said to God: &#8216;You make your dwelling in the holy place, you who are Israel&#8217;s praise&#8217;, he had no other heaven in mind than the hearts of the saints. The Apostle Paul expresses it quite clearly: &#8216;Christ lives in our hearts through faith&#8217;, he tells us. Surely it is no wonder that the Lord Jesus gladly makes his home in such a heaven because, unlike the other heavens, he did not bring it into existence by a mere word of command. He descended into the arena to win it; he laid down his life to redeem it. And so after the battle was won he solemnly declared: &#8216;This is my resting place for ever and ever; here I have chosen to dwell.&#8217; Blessed indeed is the soul to whom the Lord says: &#8216;Come, my chosen one, I will set up my throne in you.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Saint Bernard of Clairvaux<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;My Father and I will come to him&#8217; &#8211; that is to say, to the holy of heart &#8211; says the Son of God, &#8216;and we will make our home with him.&#8217; It seems to me that when the psalmist said to God: &#8216;You make your dwelling in the holy place, you who are Israel&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/making-a-home-with-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making a home with God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}