Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever (Ps. 23:4–6). Today we do not need a special tent or temple to remind us of the Lord’s presence. If we are true believers in Christ we ‘know that [we ourselves] are God’s temple and that he lives in [us] by his Spirit’ (1 Cor. 3:16). He has also promised that he will be with us always. He told his disciples, ‘Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age’ (Matt. 28:20). And
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