Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person, because God’s temple is holy and you are that temple. 1 Cor 3;16-17 NCV
Our current Bible Study is Learning How to Be Up in a Down World. It fits perfectly with our One Verse a Day Challenge for this month because it’s we’re using verses to learn how we can be up no matter how down our world may be. Last night today’s verse was one that we read under “Check Up” which had verses about how God wants us to take care of ourselves because we are so precious to Him.
It made a double impact on me because earlier that day I read John 2:19 who told the religious leaders, destroy this Temple and I will raise it up again in 3 days.” Did you see that? Jesus said He was the Temple and Paul is telling us now we are the temple because we house the Spirit of Jesus Christ! We can truly say as Jesus is, so are we in this world. Just as no man could destroy Jesus, because now He lives in those who have accepted His salvation, we too cannot be destroyed. We may stop living in this physical body, but our spirit will never die!
We may at times be fearful of what may happen to us, but we never need be afraid, because as Paul put it, “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord” 2 Cor. 5:8. Isn’t it amazing how God continues to confirm that we are in Jesus and He is in us. That He is the Word, so the Word dwells within us and longs for us to declare it so we can see it manifest. What an amazing Lord and Savior we have!
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