Today's Daily Lesson comes from Revelation 21 verses 22 through 23:
22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.
When the Magi left the City of Jerusalem and made their way to the little town of Bethlehem, and arrived finally at an old, dirt-floor barn, and a trough where a child's very poor peasant parent's had laid who on earth could believe or understand that they had just entered the holy Temple of the LORD? Yet here they were, Three Kings, lying down in prostrate worship before this trough, the knees of their fine garments now soiled with earth and hay and their noses filled with the manure of oxen and sheep. Here was the Holy Temple. Here was the Mother Church.
The Temple is the place where God can be found. The Church is where two or three are gathered in His name. And evidently, this can be anywhere -- absolutely anywhere. Jesus was born in a dirty, old Bethlehem barn; and it became the Holy Temple of God, the New Jerusalem.
Now do we get the meaning of Incarnation?
Now do we see that surely the presence of the LORD is in THIS place and we did not know it?
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