In I Corinthians 6, Paul is making a strong case against immorality in the lives of believers, when he makes one last plea in verse:
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
We, as the body of Christ, the Church, and members individually, are the temple of the Holy Spirit. He lives here within us. It's not like He is a visitor Who shows up once in awhile and we rush to clean up the place right before He gets here; He is here twenty-four, seven. And God has paid a hefty price for Him to live here. What we do with our bodies matters, because as Paul says earlier in the chapter, we might actually be committing idolatry with some of the things we do. It's like God says: "What goes on here?" That is a long, hard investigation we all need to conduct, asking the Holy Spirit to help us check it out. Where are you going to start today? May we glorify God in our body, and kick out all of the idols that are squatters.
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