The dwelling place of God

 1 Corinthians 3:16

16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

Dear friends, I have taken quite a long break from a lot of responsibilities, but now I need to start up this year with the speed of lightning otherwise I am never going to catch up with life this year!  As I was picking up the threads where we left them off last year, I realized what an amazing scripture 1 Corinthians 3:16 is to start 2023 off with!   What better thought to start this year than to be reminded that God's dwelling place for His Spirit, His place of presence and abode, is within us?    Do we really KNOW that WE - yes YOU and I are the temple of God, that HIS SPIRIT dwells in us?  We are the temple of God and God takes that so seriously that He says that if anyone defiles the temple of God, God Himself will destroy him?  Ouch - that's a serious statement, because pondering that I realized that we ourselves are the biggest culprits in defiling our own temples. But to God this temple - who is YOU and I - is HOLY.  Yes HOLY...

Thought to ponder:   Let's ask Holy Spirit to show us what is defiling our temples so we can clean it out and up and ask Him to fill us anew and make us His dwelling place once again.  

MW Smith - Agnus Dei