temple

Given October 15, 2010

What if… a famous person; the governor, a wealthy businessman, or a well-known minister were making a visit to our area and instead of getting a room at a hotel, they wanted to stay at your house? Would you be honored? Would you have to clean up your house? Would you have to “hide” anything you have lying around now? What all would you do to prepare for this monumental visit?

What if… Jesus was coming to stay at your house. What would you do to host the King of Kings and Lord of Lords? Wouldn’t you want to have the best accommodations available for Him? Wouldn’t you want to have a neat and clean house? Wouldn’t you want to provide the best food and other things he might need while you are hosting Him? Well, guess what? If you’re a Christian, you ARE hosting the Lord right now. “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16).

Think about our bodies and our minds. Think about the things that go into us through our eyes and ears which end up in our hearts which is where Jesus lives. Are we filling His dwelling place with acceptable items just as we would if that famous person was coming to our house? What if… our temple contained only the things that were pleasing to Him? What if…think about it.

Given May 26, 2008

I heard something on this day that made me think; I had never heard this idea before. The Word says in 1 Corinthians 6:19, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?“. When we get saved, the Spirit of God comes to live inside of us so we are His temple. Right?

In Jerusalem, the temple was the house of God; the dwelling place of God. It was ornate, grand, large, holy, and a fixture in the city. The people had to come to the temple to worship, pray, give to God’s work, sacrifice and learn. A fixture in the city. That is the idea of this revelation….the temple is immobile!

As Christians, we are the temple of God. Are we immobile too? Are people supposed to come to us to worship, pray, sacrifice, or learn? Or, are we supposed to take God to the people? I think it’s the latter. But, sadly, most of us are housing God in a structure that does not attract people or rarely moves to where the needs are.

Think of yourself as the mobile temple of God and move out among the people where the needs are.

What If? – Part 2, The Temple

Temple Of The Holy Spirit

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