1 CORINTHIANS 6:19-20
"Do you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must HONOR GOD WITH YOUR BODY."
Now just about anyone would believe that their body belongs to themselves, right? The truth for today is that once you were saved by Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit entered your body, it became a temple of the Lord! God bought you with the high price of His Son Jesus Christ and you are no longer your own person, but a part of Christ and His temple. Because we belong to Jesus and are a temple of the Holy Spirit we have no other option than to use our body to honor God. The question for today is are you honoring the Lord Jesus Christ with your body and is it an appropriate temple for the Holy Spirit?
Most of us do not think of our bodies as a temple of the Holy Spirit. It may be hard to think of our body as a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who lives within us. Remember that God promised us that the Holy Spirit would enter our lives and dwell within us. That is a gift from God. Now you must realize that you are not your own anymore, you belong to the Lord. You have been purchased with a precious price, the life of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now we can fulfill our purpose for being, we can worship and honor and bring glory to God with our bodies.
If you do not use your body to glorify and honor God, you must ask yourself an important question. Is the Holy Spirit residing with me in my heart? Am I a child of God and have I been saved by Jesus Christ. If you go on habitually and clearly committing the same sins as the unbeliever, then you are concerned about your own body. You sin against yourself and against God. This is what it means to have the "fruit of the spirit". Those who have Jesus Christ are not the same. They are a new person. One who will HONOR GOD WITH YOUR BODY.
