Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.
1 Corinthians 3:16–17
While people were living out the Old Testament times, God dwelt in His tabernacle. At first this was a traveling altar, known as the ark of the covenant, which the people carried with them from the time of Moses, through all the lands in which they wandered. When God’s Son, Jesus Christ, came to earth He fulfilled God’s requirements for sinful man through His death on the cross. Now God could cleanse man that He might indwell him, for God’s temple is to be a holy place.
As we go about the business of life perhaps it’s hard to remember that God indwells us. The apostle Paul constantly wrestled with desiring to do the right thing but having his flesh at war with his spirit. “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wishing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. For the good that I wish, I do not do; but I practice the very evil that I do not wish” (Romans 7:18–19).
“However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. . . And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness” (Romans 8:9–10).
Lord, let me live as though I believe You are permeating my very being. Amen.
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Today’s reading was adapted from Daily Wisdom for Women: 2013 Devotional Collection with permission from Barbour Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reading was written by Carol Lynn Fitzpatrick.