Psalm 30:9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

We have an offering we make called Dying Moments. We take a deep inventory of ourselves and hear that deepest most discerned sin of the moment, that which the Lord wants us to lay before His Cross. It is that part of us that most closely resembles this issue in Psalm 30:9 which cannot and will not glorify Christ in any way. My blood, the sacrifice of self. Going down to the pit, to lay it to rest, bury that thing, put it to death. The issue of the dust praising Christ has everything to do with this thing being that particular sin, attitude, character, fault, habit, or understanding which the Lord says “Lay it down.”

If we hear Christ aright and we have taken to that dying moment the very thing which He is asking of us to sacrifice, it shall declare unto you that you have heard and obeyed the truth.

I would by all good counsel ask each of us, myself especially, NOT to pick it up again. If we can hold the memory of those sacred moments when we knew in our hearts that this was true obedience of faith and remember the relief in letting go, perhaps it will remind us, it is a dead thing, touch not, want not.

Do you practice dying moments? We in a particular community of believers celebrate these moments together but in truth should and many do, exercise Dying Moments in private. I must admit that a public declaration does make it more memorable but not more effective. It does make it more memorable and if so that is more significant in that you will find it easier to remember.

Don’t touch, don’t want. It’s a dead thing to you.

1 Corinthians 3:8,14 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

Of all the conversations I have had with believers, this is the one I believe that has been the most misunderstood of all Christian concepts. I do not know that all Christians have it wrong. I have not talked to all Christians, but to those to whom I have talked, they have difficulty letting go of their vision of reward.

A worldly reward is a thing given in recognition of one’s service, effort, or achievement. As we know from living in the Kingdom, spiritual matters do not follow worldly ways. Jesus Christ is the Way. To properly search out the reward according to God’s design, we need to throw out our worldly understanding of reward. Forget for a moment about reward and think about results. If work is in play, then results must also be a part of the design in question.

The object under construction here is found in verse 9, ye are God’s building. Supporting scriptures such as 1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Verse 3:10 tells us to be careful in building upon our foundation which is in Christ. Many see this as a church but in this we should focus on our temple body, the dwelling place of God. Jesus warned us in His earthly ministry of the dangers involved.

In Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17 and Luke 19:46 Jesus threw out the money changers and declared they had made His temple a den of thieves. Warning associated with this concept were also written in the Old Testament, not just as prophecy but as a warning against the practices.

1 Corinthians 3:12-13 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

Worldly items, worldly rewards, not the things which Christ wants in His temple.