"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
Taking care of our body temple glorifies God because the Spirit of God lives there. Most of us don't think about God much so we don't think about the Kingdom of God within. We also don't think much about taking care of our body temple. I would imagine that when God created us in His Image and placed the Kingdom of God within our body temples, that He had a plan. It seems sort of obvious to me that the Infinite Intelligence, the Creator of the Universe, would have had a plan for our body temples, and perhaps we should know what that is.
The way to find out what the plan is for our body is to completely surrender to God. The Holy Ghost within is full of light and when we surrender to God our mind, body and spirit is filled with that light. How many of us surrender to the Holy Spirit completely? We worry about where we live. We worry about what we eat. We worry about what we wear. We all have moments of surrender, for sure. When we completely surrender the Holy Spirit fills our body, mind and spirit with light. The body is quickened by the Holy Spirit and it is cleansed, healed, prospered, and shown God's plan for the body and our life.
Our body temple was built for the light within. We sometimes allow darkness into the temple by allowing fear, doubt, and confusion into our mind instead of keeping it focused on the light. Dark thoughts are not good for the body temple. Jesus Christ said, "be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove...the perfect will of God" (Romans 12:1-2) It isn't easy to keep the thoughts in our mind on the light of God because our five senses seem so real and they confuse us with dark thoughts from the world.
We can experiment with turning our thoughts to light and go to the quiet place within unto the Father. We should be willing to at least try turning our thinking to the light. We are told to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added. (Matthew 6:33)
Jesus said you can't serve God and the world. (Matthew 6:24) Either we have our mind on the light of God in faith, or we think thoughts of fear and worry. James called it being double minded and a said that a double minded person should not expect to receive anything from God. (James 1:5-8) We should experiment with being in a place of complete surrender to God by bringing our mind, body and spirit in line with the mind, body and spirit of Jesus Christ. We can do this in the name of and by the power of Jesus Christ. It some times takes practice. It is like learning a new instrument, or a sport, or anything else we learn new. The more we practice doing it, the better we get at doing it. Allowing the mind, body and spirit of Jesus Christ to take over our mind, body and spirit takes practice. The first step is to let go and surrender.
Through the singleness of the thoughts in our mind we can see the finished result through a vision. Do we see with the eye of faith? Do we see with eye of fear and worry? Which eye do we see with? How does a scientist see an idea in his mind? He sees the finished result successful with the expectation of finding a way. He doesn't know how that will happen, but he experiments. Where does he get the ideas for the experiments? The scientist arrives at the finished result because he had faith. Faith in the ideas that sprang up from within himself. Faith and action go hand in hand. Active faith. He continued to experiment even though he had failures or partial success with a finished result. He didn't quit just because the finished result wasn't forthcoming immediately. He didn't know exactly how it would happen, but the scientist had enough faith in the vision he saw in his mind to keep going. He didn't get discouraged before he reached his goal. As Paul says, he pressed forward toward the mark. (Philippians 3:14)
We must too. It is the same for us with the ideas that spring from the Kingdom within. When we are surrendered in God we are not looking at darkness, we are looking at light. We are seeing with the eyes of faith rather than looking at physical evidence through our physical senses. We can't possibly know what God has planned for us by focusing on outer evidence as presented to us by our physical senses.
God is in our midst. (Hosea 11:9) He is mighty. He built our body temple for the light. I do yoga postures and stretches every morning for the glory of God in my temple. I walk to keep my body temple healthy for the glory of God in my temple. I eat nutritious food for the glory of God in my temple. I think thoughts of light rather than thoughts of darkness for the glory of God. I speak words of light rather than words of darkness for the glory of God. Everything I do I do for the glory of God in the light of His presence in the Kingdom of God within. The body is the temple of God. We should at least have a goal of perfection in the name of Jesus Christ and by the power of Jesus Christ, and experiment. We should at least have a willingness to surrender to God and try to turn our mind, body and spirit over to Him.
Through surrender we become one with the Father as Christ did. He takes over. This is the way of Jesus Christ. It is so simple that some times we miss it. Jesus Christ showed the world how to get to the prize. The prize is a very personal, communion with our Father God in the Kingdom of God within. The body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you.
If you enjoyed reading this post, you might also enjoy reading Power in Surrender and The Kingdom Within. Peace and blessings to you. Terrie
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