Thurs.’s Devo - We Are the Temple of the Holy Spirit

Read: Ezekiel 42-43
The description of the temple gets to be pretty wordy and complicated but after reading it the third time out loud I started seeing something. This temple is a picture of our individual spirits. 1 Corinthians 3:16 “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” In us we have the holy and the profane and in this verse God is measuring it. Jesus said that he would tear down the temple in three days and rebuild it. He was talking about the old temple as being the old covenant of sacrifices and works. It was going to be rebuild through his blood on the cross. He was also referring to our individual temples of our bodies that would be rebuilt by salvation on the cross. I don’t profess to come close to understanding it but I do love chapter 43 because that is what happens when the spirit of God is poured into a person’s temple. 2 Corinthians 6:16 “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.” In this verse, God says he will dwell in our temple. In Revelation 11, John is given the same reed to measure the temple of God, the altar, and those that worship in it. He was told not to measure the court because it was given to the Gentiles. I used to think he was talking about us, but he is talking about the enemies of God because they are the ones that are going to tread down the temple for 42 months. Once we become Christians we are considered Jews in God’s eyes. There is no longer Jew nor Greek. (Galatians 3:28). All the promises of God’s chosen people are ours. Paul goes on to say in Colossians 3:11: “Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.”
Lord, thank you for your sanctifying process. You are cleansing our temple so that we can be accepted by You.