Monday, November 13, 2006

Holy Temple

1Co 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

It is good - because all things from God are good - to remember that we are Holy within these Temples. The key word you just missed is remember: it is good that God gave us the possibility of remembering One self. Despite the lurings of the flesh we are separated out and Holy unto Him who is our Creator. The Holy Spirit dos not dwell in temples of lust and lewdness and drunken revellery. I don't say that such a life is common to any of us - though it may be - but, that it is easy to forget one's faith in the competing forces of the day. We need to put on the armour of light, we need to walk lightly in this world, playing a role but never wholly taken by it. We perform a higher service or we would, but we need to remember that we are Holy Temples, to look at ourselves from a higher perspective and feel that shame and repulsion we would naturally feel were we to remember this One self not servicing the flesh. We are not of the world but of the Kingdom of God, yet caught in the turmoil and pull of the world it is never easy to remember oneself, in the Kingdom of God, a Holy Temple.