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Is your body the temple?
1Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
John 2:14-17 And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, ”Take these things away! Do not make My Fathers house a house of merchandise!” Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house has eaten Me up.
As Jesus turned the tables over in the temple, He let the people know that God’s house was made for prayer, and the men had made it for merchandise. They were looking to buy and sell to the people that came to the temple. It made less time for them to pray and took away the true purpose that God wanted the temple for. When Jesus rose to the right hand of the Father and sent the Holy Spirit as our helper we then become the temple. Our bodies become the temple.
When Jesus sees us and our bodies, will He see us in prayer, or praise and worship. Or will He find us consumed with thoughts and concerns of how to make money to pay our bills. Will he find our temples bribing and deceitful to make an extra buck. Will Jesus find our temples abused because we have done all to gain praise among men.
What shape will Jesus see our temples in? In constant prayer, and standing in faith with sword and armor ready, or full of worldly worry and how to get more, abused and broken down, all in the name of success?
Your Body’s God’s temple, you get to choose what to do with it. Ask Jesus to live in it and make it a house of prayer. If you do not asks Him to live there, it becomes a den for thieves.
I’m so glad you wrote about this. I have concern about the care I take (or don’t take) of my body. I overfeed it, undernourish it and underexercise it. I do however try to use it for God’s purposes and to live the way he wants of my own free will. And I love Him. Any thoughts?
“then the disciples remembered it is written ‘The zeal for your house has eaten me up'”. Do you know where that is written?
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