| “Therefore honor God with your bodies.” |
| —1 Corinthians 6:20b |
We who believe in Jesus and the life-transforming power that He lovingly supplies all those who believe on His Name, desire to honor Him with all four of our human modalities: our heart, soul, mind, and strength—or our emotional modality, our spiritual modality, our intellectual modality, and our physical modality. We consciously make an effort to study the Bible, pray, and become more and more aware of the nudging of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
But, in an age where body-consciousness has played such a devastating role in so many people’s lives, I wonder if we ever really grasp that we are to honor God with our bodies—our physical modality—as well as with our hearts, souls, and minds. Notice what the Apostle Paul writes to the Church at Corinth in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20:
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
We have often heard people tell us that our bodies are “temples.” I don’t know that the people who often use such a phrase realize that the temple they refer to is a temple where God resides, through the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit.
There is a very good reason why we should honor God with our physical modality, our bodies: He dwells within us when we believe in Jesus. So, let’s examine our lives today and make certain that whatever we do with our bodies gives due recognition that God lives within us. Our bodies are indeed temples where the very God of the universe dwells. That is reason enough for us to honor God with our bodies, as well as with our hearts, souls, and minds.
Based on a blog originally posted on Friday, September 16, 2016
