The Sacred House – Tommy Thompson

We can learn a great deal about ourselves simply by imagining our bodies as the sacred house of God.

A house has many rooms—each with a different purpose, each decorated differently, each cared for with varying levels of attention. Some rooms are welcoming and well kept. Others slowly fill with clutter. (At least that’s how it works in our house.)

So pause for a moment and ask yourself:

What does the inside of your sacred house look like?

What rooms exist within it?

• Living Room

• Dining Room

• Family Room

• Bedroom

• Closets

• Bathroom

• Media Room

• Exercise Room

• Attic

• Basement

• Library

• Computer Room

Each room represents something about you.

The kitchen may reflect the role food plays in your life.

The exercise room may reveal the place health and movement hold.

Closets are especially interesting—are they the place where secrets are stored? How many closets exist in your sacred house?

Is the media room—with its large screen and endless noise—the biggest room in the house?

Where do you spend the most time? Which rooms receive the most care and attention?

And where does God fit?

Does He have His own room? How large is it? Is He welcome in the other rooms—or only invited into a few?

This reflection can be as light or as deep as you choose. You may sit with a single question and allow it to gently challenge you. Or you may go further—listing the rooms in your sacred house, describing their size and prominence, and imagining how you might want the house to look if God were walking through it with you.

The small but powerful booklet My Heart Christ’s Home invites us into this very exercise—examining the rooms of our hearts and considering what full surrender really looks like.

And then there is Christ’s simple, haunting invitation in Revelation:

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock.”

If you open the door—what would He find inside your sacred house?