temple - cmi sealed orders #2 - "who do you think you are?"

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?

1 Corinthians 6:19

Close your eyes for a moment and think about your home church or corps.  Imagine walking in on a typical Sunday.  Visualize the people you see, the places you walk through, the things you do. 

You just finished a time of worship that introduced this Sealed Order.

Think of what it means to be in God’s presence and to worship him with your friends. 

Now, think about what happens when you leave church.  What happens when CMI is over?  When you go back to “regular” life, does it feel like you are doing it alone – without God with you?

Just like the Tabernacle Moses built or the Temple that Solomon engineered, your home corps is a kind of temple – a place to meet God and for him to dwell with us, his people.

But you are his temple as well.  After all, you are the most intricately designed portable place of worship. 

Paul asked the Corinthians, “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?”  As if it was the most obvious fact of all. 

When we turn our lives over to God, we become little temples – places to meet with God.

In fact, as you walk around and go through the regular activities of the day, you have God with you, in the place he designed to dwell with you.

You are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

Take these silent moments just to enjoy God’s presence and to have your own private worship meeting.