Part 1
A house built in Durham or Henderson may be worth $100,000. But take that same house
and build it in New York or Chicago, and suddenly it is worth a half million dollars.
Location matters.
As Believers and sons of God, our worth is not defined or bound to a physical location.
Instead, our worth is defined by how best we tend to the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit builds upon the location that lies within each of us. (1 Corinthians 3:16) “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” Therefore, it is the present location of the believer that has worth!
Location matters.
It goes even deeper than that! (1 Corinthians 3:9) “For we are God’s fellow workers: you are God’s field, you are God’s building.” Not only are we the vessel, the container, the dwelling place of the Holy of Holies, but we are also the fields and the ground in which God’s mighty acts manifest themselves! God’s divine will is communicated to us by the Holy Spirit to our spiritual man. And like any field in the natural world, our spiritual fields may be fertile or barren. Either we are ready to receive, to be receptive, and to act upon God’s commands, or we are barren and not ready for God’s blessings and commands!
Location matters.
And God’s instructions are explicit on how we are to build ourselves as vessels and containers of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 3:10-11) “According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon it. But let each one take heed how he builds upon it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”
Again, our worth is not defined by a physical location but is defined by how best we tend to the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit builds upon the location that lies within each of us.
- Mike West
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