Charles Haddon
Spurgeon

“We dwell in him.”

1 John 4:13

Do you want a house for your soul? Do you ask, “What is the purchase?”
It is something less than proud human nature will like to give. It is
without money and without price. Ah! you would like to pay a
respectable rent! You would love to do something to win Christ? Then
you cannot have the house, for it is “without price.” Will you take my
Master’s house on a lease for all eternity, with nothing to pay for it,
nothing but the ground-rent of loving and serving him forever? Will you
take Jesus and “dwell in him?” See, this house is furnished with all
you want, it is filled with riches more than you will spend as long as
you live. Here you can have intimate communion with Christ and feast on
his love; here are tables well-stored with food for you to live on
forever; in it, when weary, you can find rest with Jesus; and from it
you can look out and see heaven itself. Will you have the house? Ah! if
you are houseless, you will say, “I should like to have the house; but
may I have it?” Yes; there is the key–the key is, “Come to Jesus.”
“But,” you say, “I am too shabby for such a house.” Never mind; there
are garments inside. If you feel guilty and condemned, come; and though
the house is too good for you, Christ will make you good enough for the
house by-and-by. He will wash you and cleanse you, and you will yet be
able to sing, “We dwell in him.” Believer: thrice happy art thou to
have such a dwelling-place! Greatly privileged thou art, for thou hast
a “strong habitation” in which thou art ever safe. And “dwelling in
him,” thou hast not only a perfect and secure house, but an everlasting
one. When this world shall have melted like a dream, our house shall
live, and stand more imperishable than marble, more solid than granite,
self-existent as God, for it is God himself–“We dwell in him.”