“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16).

These are unprecedented times. I would have never thought that I’d live to see our nation, our world, in “lock down” mode, that we’d be unable to come together to worship in our churches, that our church buildings would be empty! The Good News is that we know that is NOT where God lives!

In the Old Testament, God appeared to His people—the Israelites—as a pillar of cloud by day and as a pillar of fire by night to lead them through the wilderness. Moses was instructed to build a Tabernacle and Solomon a beautiful temple, both symbolizing God’s promise to “dwell among the Israelites and be their God” (Exodus 29:45).

We know God no longer resides in a physical temple, behind the curtain in the Holy of Holies. We know that as we recently celebrated Easter as well as Good Friday, by His death on the cross, Jesus tore that curtain! That not only gives us access to a holy God, but actually makes our bodies, His temple, as living stones!
“As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 2:4-6).

Through Christ, from the New Testament until today, He opens the way to God. We are His chosen people too and He reveals Himself by being in us through the Holy Spirit!

Source: National Prayer Team