"And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people" (2 Corinthians 6:16).
God is the Architect and Builder of our body and everything it contains. He built it as a place of habitation for Himself. The idea of man being the dwelling place of God is only found in Christianity. Great would be our blessings if we would make effort to meditate and understand this concept of being God's dwelling place.
The Bible tells us in several epistles that the Christian is the house of God, His building, His temple and His very habitation. You were not the one who applied to be His temple; it was God's prerogative. You were designed to be His garden where He walks in the cool of the day. If God lives in you, people who are looking for Him should be able to find Him when they come to you. The implication is that the believer should be a God-carrier, carrying the presence of the Most High God all about, bringing God to everyone. This brings a responsibility upon the believer in that you have to walk in a way that God could fill you with all His fullness, and then you can relate to everyone around you out of that fullness.
We must learn to consciously give God space in our lives which is His house. Imagine you own a house but you cannot do what you want and go where you like in your own house. That would be terrible, isn't it? But that is exactly what most of us do to God. Your house never tells you where you can sit or sleep, but we dictate to God how to behave in His own house. And some of us are even so daring as to chase God out of His house. The church of the Laodiceans did that in the book of Revelation and the Lord had to be knocking to enter His own house. Too bad because, even as at the time of reporting, it was not recorded that the Lord had received any positive response to His relentless knocking!
We must emphasise the fact that your body is not yours. There is nothing like my body belongs to me and I can do what I like with it. That philosophy is from the pit of hell and it has served to hinder effective Christian witness in modern times. You have no right to abuse your body in any way. God is always angry with anyone who defiles his body because it means that such a person is making the habitation of God unclean. The Bible says destruction is what awaits such a person (1 Corinthians 3:17). However, you are under divine obligation to glorify God in your body. Use your body to honour the Lord always.
A songwriter wrote that the greatest salvation is Jesus Christ dwelling in us. God in us and revealed in us is the ultimate manifestation that the world is waiting for. Let your words and actions constantly reveal the God that is within you. It is well.
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