Posture Before God

There are many postures that a believer takes before their God. Kneeling, for example, is popular among Catholics. There is the bowing of our heads with folded hands. This posture is popular with the kiddos because of the famous lyrics, "Open, shut them, open shut them, put them in your lap!" I often take the posture of staring up toward the heavens. I often see the sky or a ceiling, but this posture helps to remind me that God is highly exalted.
Each of these positions are acceptable. Kneeling is a posture shared by the present day church, and the prayer warrior Daniel of the Old Testament. Children who learn to bow their heads will learn humility and reference. When I gaze to the heavens, I feel a deep longing to be reunited with Christ. However, I have found a new posture that is currently intriguing me.
This posture is, for lack of a better term, the posture of focusing on my inner man. When you kneel, you show surrender. When you bow your head, you show reverence. When you look to the heavens, you feel wonder. When you look toward the Spirit residing inside your weak frame, you feel power and experience sweet communion.
We are often told, as Christians, that the Holy Spirit dwells inside of us. I have often considered this an ethereal statement. I have never grappled with the idea that God, in all His majesty, takes up residence within my very flesh. This is hard to believe because I live with myself through the mundane and the ugly. However, this statement is still a fact. God's Spirit is residing within me and you!
Therefore, this new posture is welcomed. I don't have to strain to look towards heaven. God is within her. (Psalm 46:1-5) I fellowship with the Spirit who sustains me. I can stir Him, and I can acknowledge Him. God has chosen to take on flesh, and He has chosen to encase His Spirit in our mortal bodies. A jar of clay with a deep treasure.
Try it. Look at your hands. There is a Spirit running through your very fingers! Put your hand on your stomach. God is stirring Himself within you to give birth to new things. I know it might sound odd or even look odd, but when you begin to experience His groaning and longings, which reside in you, the strangeness will become addictive.

"But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us."
2 Corinthians 4:7