My Heart, Christ’s Home

Rev. 3:20
'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me.
When we welcome Christ into our hearts, it is like welcoming someone into our home. Except with Jesus, He desires to come into our house and clean it top to bottom. Not only does He desire to clean and occupy our house and make it his home, He wants the deed to the house as well. Jesus desires total surrender of everything, every room, every closet. And He wants to fill it with His furniture and appliances, things that are useful for His purposes. We become His home here on earth.
At the same time, Jesus Christ welcomes us into His Father’s house, the Kingdom of Heaven. But we’re not just welcomed as visitors or guests. If you welcome someone into your home, they usually only have access to certain rooms. You might usher them into the living room or a formal sitting room. If you are very familiar with them you might welcome them into the kitchen to sit at the bar or table and share a drink and food and fellowship. If that person is staying with you for an extended period, you might welcome them to make themselves at home and help themselves to the refrigerator and the guest room and bath. But only the true children have complete access to the whole house and all its contents. Your children may run freely through any room and use any piece of furniture or appliance or utensil. And only your children are allowed into the most intimate of all rooms, the master bedroom, to come and snuggle with their parents.
So it is with the Father, when we become His children, we are given access to all the riches of His Kingdom. We may dine on all that He has to offer. He desires to feed us with the pure milk and meat of His precious Word. We are given comfort and shelter. He welcomes us into intimate fellowship with Him, to sit at His feet and listen to His voice and at times to be held in His arms. So it is that our hearts become His home and that home then becomes interconnected with His heavenly home. Thus we have fellowship with the God of heaven, Lord of the Universe, King of kings, Lord of Lords, becoming children of the King!
John 1:12
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name…