I once read a book about the attentive life. The writer encouraged me to walk through all the moments of my life attentive to who God is with me for me. The book was helpful.

However, at one point, the writer says he wants to connect with the centre of his being to make a home for God. That sounds good, but should we aim to make a home for God?  Jesus tells us that he and his Father come and make their home with us,  We don’t make a home for Father and Son; they have made a home with us. 

Father, Son and Spirit mutually indwell one another as one communal being.  That means where the one is the others are too.  So the Spirit indwelling us is the Son indwelling us. And, the Son indwelling us by the Spirit is also the Father indwelling us. Because of this, Jesus tells us that both he and his Father make their home with us by the Spirit.  Our sharing in the Triune communion could not be deeper. All this anticipates our life together on the new earth: 

“See, the home of God is among the people.  He will dwell with them; they will be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes.” (Rev. 21.3-4) 

By his Spirit, God makes his home with us here and now.  He does so in anticipation of making his home with us fully on the new earth. And as Father and Son make their home with us in the Spirit, we find our home in them.