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The Living Temple of Jesus
By Robert Schaetzle
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? 1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV
I was reading in Luke’s account when our Lord in righteous indignation condemned those who were making Herod’s Temple a den of robbers.
I kept thinking those structures were built by hands. I had to consider all three temples. The first being Solomon’s Temple. completed in 957BC. Then came Zerubbabel’s Temple, completed in 516BC. Afterward, Herod’s Temple that he built to placate the Jews, was completed somewhere from 20BC to 64AD and destroyed in 70AD.
But greater still is ‘The Living Temple…’ as each new follower of Jesus becomes. How precious we are to be called ‘Children of God,’ created in His image, and to know we are a representation of His preeminence. To recognize the presence of God’s Holy Spirit abiding in us. With this also comes God’s request:
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Mathew 5:16
We have received not the spirit of the world for other to witness, (cf 1 Corinthians 2:11-12) but The Spirit which is from God for others to recognize and follow. As a ‘Living Temple,’ we’re not stationary, but we move about everywhere every day. No matter what our responsibility, from homemaker caring for loving children, to our vocational or work environment, We are still ‘God’s Living Temple!’
Something said by George Campbell Morgan: “The soldier -saints are men and women who share the Christ-life, the ultimate of whose life is service unto the ages , but who therefore have present responsibilities- those of revealing the order, the moment, the power, and the breath of heavenly things amidst all the things of the world.”[found in Keswick’s Triumphant Voice]
Father… as God’s Living Temple, we are commissioned for things above more than things on earth. AMEN
Robert serves in a Sharing and Caring Ministry to strengthen and encourage God’s presence in us
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