"Father, enter this temple / Come touch Your people / we need to be where You are" - from the song, "Enter This Temple"

Ephesians 2:22 says, "And in Him, you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit."

A temple, simply put, is a place or person in which God lives. I've always said that I wanted to "be where God is." I guess for us to find out where God is, we have to know where to find him.

First, we know that He's in us. That's made very clear to us throughout our Christian walk; that God actually dwells in us through salvation.

But, a second and equally important place for God to be...is "in our midst."

But you might say, "well if God is inside of us... isn't He already 'in our midst'?" Yes, that's true, but I believe that it goes so much further than that. It's great that Jesus is in our hearts, but Him being inside of us is only half of the work!

There is a lost and hurting world, including a hurting church that is desperate to see God in a tangible way. Why can't we experience Jesus the same way the disciples did? God wants to move supernaturally in our midst, just as much as he wants to do an inward work in our hearts. It's unbalanced to have one without the other.

In the book of Acts, we see men that each had their own amazing inward experience with God. These men were drastically affected by Jesus, but they didn't let it stop there! They wanted the fullness of God's power in their midst.

What does that mean? It means that they gave their lives to see the hungry fed, the lost saved, the sick healed, the bound set-free, and the dead raised.

So, when we sing "Enter This Temple," we know that God is happy to be in us, and that's where the work begins. But, will we be bold enough to ask God to enter another temple?

The dwelling of our everyday life, changing the people around us and allowing them to experience the God that we know so intimately.