Temple View

"And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them"(1 Chronicles 9:27)

My husband was home-schooled, him and all his siblings. This was his mom's desire, who hadn't had the best time as a child in public school. Now, his mother, besides home-schooling her children, had another dream: she wanted to live in a house with a view to the temple. For various reasons, this never happened. But, aware of, and sharing their mother's dream, this family gave their "home-school" the name Templeview.

When I was reading 1 Chronicles about the different Levitical duties concerning the temple, I read about how some where to live by the temple and keep watch over it, and was reminded of Templeview. Some of us are physically able to do this, our backyard views opening up to a gorgeous view of a temple of God.

Others of us have to make our homes temples. And yes, that includes cleaning and organizing and not watching bad movies, but it's more than that. Our temple-homes can include genealogy and work for the dead, can be a place of prayer and holy communication, can even have off-key heavenly choirs.

Let's narrow this further: WE can be walking, talking temples. We can be a house for that third member of the Godhead, the Holy Ghost. We can constantly have that "temple-view".

Now, the scripture above said that this was their "charge". Let's take a look at what Moses originally intended for Israel: "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation"(Exodus 19:6); "would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets" (Numbers 11:29). And that was the idea when Israel was first founded, I would like to think we are able to meet, and succeed, these expectations nowadays.

We are part of Israel. We have temples. Many of us are priests, and prophets, holy men and women. Let us not forget our charge, let us always seek after obtaining that "temple-view"