Temple of God - Mel P Oommen

How can you possess God? You can be only possessed by him, you cannot possess him. He is not smaller than you, he is bigger. How can the stream or river possess the ocean? The river can only disappear into the ocean. The ocean will possess the river, and that is the only way for the river to possess the ocean.

And there is a story that a fish in the ocean started inquiring, - ‘where is the ocean?’ And she moved in the ocean all the time and paradoxically she wanted to know, where the ocean was. When somebody catches her in a net and takes her on to the hot sands, then she knows what the ocean is. That is possible with a fish – for a fish: but what about man? Man cannot be taken out of God. There is no place which is outside God. So we are born in him. We are loved by him, we are young in him and we become old in him. You must be blind because you don’t see him and you go on asking ‘Where is God?’

Man is an empty temple if God is missing. And God will go on being missing unless your seed dissolves and you start sprouting into God. God is your growth. God has to be your growth. And that is the whole message of Jesus.

© "Be With the Master Jesus" by Mel P Oommen, published by M/s MO Poonnen, Melamparampil, Thiruvalla 689 110. Reprinted with permission.

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