A Sacred Place. 

This concept of inner most being has being flowing in and out of my mind for most than a month. Kind of like the tides of the ocean. I decided to look up what inner most meant in my Old Testament Bible Dictionary and Word Study. I am fascinated by this and it’s New Testament companion as I find other languages tend to be more eloquent than English most of the time.

The word for inner most refers to a room or a chamber being sectioned off or enclosed from others. When combined with other words it refers to rooms or chambers accessed one inside of the other.

Immediately I got a picture of the Old Testament temple, and how the inner most chamber of the temple was the Holy of Holies where the Presence of the Glory of God rested/dwelled.

If we are the temples of the Holy Spirit our inner most being, that deepest chamber of our spirit is a holy resting place for the indwelling of the Glory of God. Therefore, there is something sacred about our inner most being, and Whose Spirit we carry. I am deeply humbled by this, and think too often in modern Christianity we have shied away from this kind of thinking for fear it leans to the mystical.

This place needs to be acknowledged, tended to, and grown. It is a place which we need to guard with all of our strength. It is a sacred place where He shows us Wisdom and Truth.

To bring this thought full circle in the New Testament John talks about rivers of living water flowing out of us from our inner most being. As we quiet ourselves we access His dwelling place, and in turn His Spirit flows out of us. In this sacred place is where we find purpose and the meaning of life.

Psalm 51:6 “Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being,
and in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.” (NASB)

I Corinthians 6:19 “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?” (NASB)

John 7:38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’ ”       

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Inner most word search from O.T. Hebrew and N. T. Greek were from the following:

Warren Baker, D.R.E and Eugene Carpenter, Ph.D. The Complete Word Study Dictionary, (AMG publishers, 2003)

Spiros Zodhiates Th.D, The Complete Word Study of the New Testament, (AMG publishers, 1992)