Our Bodies

 ¹⁹What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? ²⁰For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

-First Corinthians 6:19-20 (KJV)

Another way we deny Jesus is with our body. We are the creation of God, we are made in His image and in His likeness. Since we are made by God, that makes our body a temple of God. Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, and you defile that temple each and every time you defile your body. How do you defile that temple?

We defile the temple each and every time we defile our body. To defile means to pollute or to make filthy. When we pollute our bodies with the things of the world, we pollute the temple of the Holy Ghost. We pollute our bodies with we become drunk. We defile our bodies when we have sex outside of marriage. We defile our bodies with drugs, when we smoke a cigarette, with poor eating and poor sleeping habits. The list goes on. The Holy Spirit is in you, and is from God. How can you justify defiling the temple of God? We, instead, need to bring honor to God, and honor to His temple. How should we treat our bodies?

Romans 12:1-2 says, "¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." We are to offer our bodes as a "living sacrifice." We need to put our own desires aside and seek after the will of God for our lives. Paul tells us that offering our bodies as a "living sacrifice" is our "spiritual act of worship." By offering our bodies as a living sacrifice to God, we are showing proper worship. Our worship of God should be something we do always, not just Sunday mornings. Paul goes on to instruct us "not to conform any longer to the pattern of this world." That means not doing the things the world does. The pattern of the world is to do whatever pleases you, no matter the cost or outcome. 

Are you treating your body as a living sacrifice for God? Is your temple of God holy, or defiled? Think About It.