Temple Time
By David Berg - December, 1972
(Vision): Everybody in this big central room under the dome, they are all looking up like they expect something. People are rushing around out in the wings, like they're busy in the service of the King; but the people here under the central dome just stand there quietly and look up, bathed in that beautiful, beautiful golden glow from above, taking big deep breaths of that Heavenly air that comes down the pipe, getting a whiff of that fragrance now and then. Oh, Lord, for a breath of Thy Heavenly air to refresh us and clear our minds and inspire our hearts and give us visions that thrill us, that set our heads awhirl for Thee, Jesus! Praise the Lord!
It's just like the people who are so busy rushing around get tired and they have to come in the middle room and look up and take a nice big breath and catch another vision and take another look and get filled up again. It's His temple. Help us to be like that, Jesus, and to remember we can't go on without the Heavenly vision You give, a breath of Heavenly fresh air, the sound of that sweet music! We just can't go on without hearing Thy voice and breathing the fragrance of that wonderful incense and seeing the beautiful starry sky and getting inspired by the upward look!
Have you been in the Temple today? Are you taking a look upward? Have you breathed deeply of that Heavenly elixir? Have you heard those beautiful notes of Heavenly music––marvelled at God's starry sky, His great Creation, His Universe, to know that all is well and find rest and peace to your souls before you go back to work in the wings?
You wouldn't worry and fret so and be so upset if you spent more time with the Lord looking up through that starry dome and breathing that Heavenly air and hearing that beautiful music! You'd find peace and rest unto your souls. You just cannot go on if you only hurry around all the time in the wings and you never step into the rotunda and look up through the dome, spending quiet time, seeing Heavenly visions and breathing Heavenly air and hearing Heavenly music and voices! It just totally renews you and completely refreshes you and gives you new vision and fresh inspiration, new strength, rest and peace and joy!
Have you been there to get a fresh breath of air from Heaven?––If you haven't, you've really missed something! You're going to get awfully tired and weary and upset and fearful and doubting and discouraged and worried and flurried and hurried because you haven't been renewed in the temple of His spirit with the voice of His truth and the Heavenly vision!
"For they that partake of these things have strength that ye know not of! They that follow Me and hear My voice and they that savour My fragrance and see those things which I show them, they are the children of David!"
You'll get out of touch if you don't––out of communication and fellowship, out of the victory! You'll run out of strength and wisdom and love and patience and pretty soon you'll just plain run out because you can't take it any more! Because you've been too busy out in the wings and you haven't come into the Temple to be refreshed and renewed.
Are you too busy? Are you in too big a hurry? Is your work too important to stop for a few minutes of inspiration and refreshing from on High, spiritual renewal, physical rest, a little love feast with the Lord? If you've missed a trip into the Temple of His Spirit today in fellowship with all the other crystals, you've really missed something! You'll not last long, you're going to wear out. You'll never make it if you don't stop for awhile under the dome and look up at His starry sky and the peace and tranquility and mighty moving of the spheres and hear their music!––Up There where all is perfection, perfect order and harmony and peace!
Look and live! Stop, look, listen and live! How many times has the Lord told us this, that you cannot live without it? You'd better take time for the Temple or you're going to find out you're running out of time!––Time for that wonderful rest in the Temple! Have you had your temple time today?––Your quiet time in His Temple?
All you have to do is get alone with the Lord and look up at all His beauties and breathe His Heavenly air and hear His Heavenly music and see His Heavenly visions! "Ye are the temple of the Holy Ghost!" If you don't move in here and get a little of His light, you're not going to reflect much or refract much or catch more of it to pass on to others.
How much time have you spent in the Temple today? There doesn't have to be any set time. You can look up through the dome any time of day, anywhere, wherever you are, whatever you're doing.––Just a few quiet moments with the Lord. Anytime, anywhere, you can come swiftly out of the wings and enter the Temple in spirit and in truth!
You just can't do it very much in the midst of confusion with other voices and clatter going on out in the wings. They are part of the Temple and necessary to the service of the Temple, but you have to get quiet somewhere, sometime. I've found those hours in the morning when you can't sleep are a wonderful time and the view is so beautiful! The night is so quiet and so still. Don't just lie there! Pray! Look and live! Look up! Make a temple of your heart! See what God can do in that beautiful realm of the Spirit!
Sometimes you wonder what is the Truth out there in the wings, you get so far out of touch and you have to come back into the rotunda where you get your batteries recharged. Lord Jesus, give these dear ones rest. Help them to spend as often as they can in Thy Temple in that quiet place of rest before Thy throne.
You can't do it without Him, Beloved. You'll never make it without His power. A lot of these little tape recorders will run for a while on batteries, but how long will they run on batteries?––You'll run for awhile but then you'll have to come back and get hooked up to the current again or you'll run slower and slower till you have nothing left and are just plumb flat!
I'm not so smart! I don't know anything but what God shows me and I just pass it on to you. Everything God shows you always works out! Thank you Jesus for the Temple of Thy spirit, where we can have truth and rest unto our souls! Isn't He wonderful? Then why don't you spend more time alone with Him? If you love Him so much, why don't you act like it?
Are you on God's channel, or are you so downhearted that you keep looking down? If you're downhearted and downcast, it's because you're looking down too much at the waves. You've got your antenna pointed down towards Hell instead of up toward Heaven––or outside at all the people and confusion and sheep instead of toward the Chief Shepherd. Are the only signals you're receiving just a bunch of confusion and babble, or have you got your antenna pointed straight up toward Heaven, where you can't get anything but the Lord?
It all depends on which way you point your antenna, or you'll get the wrong station or you won't get the signals clear.––You'll get nothing but static from the Devil. If you get your antenna straight up you can't even get those other channels!––All you'll get is God's channel. It's downright hard work out in the wings, feeding and sacrificing and working, ministering to the multitudes. But you'll never have the strength or the vision or the inspiration that you need to do it unless you come back in under the dome and look up in the spirit for His truth!
He can solve all your problems in one little glimpse! He can refresh your whole spirit with one deep breath! He can clarify all your thoughts with just one sweet strain of Heavenly music! Hallelujah! And He can wipe away all your fears and tears with just one little restful moment in that perfect peace He gives when your mind is stayed on Him and Him alone because you trust in Him.
It just takes one little glimpse of Jesus to make it worth it all!––And to help you be able to do it all. Is it worth the time it takes in the Temple? Take time in the Temple! Amen?