A Meditation on the Stunning Image of Your Body As God’s Temple in 2 Chronicles 5:13-14

If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast. When the NT says our body is God’s temple, for us that tends to go in one ear and out the other. But if we really understand the meaning/image of that, it will transform your view of not just your body but your whole life. While we discuss this, remember to continue your breathing and focus in part on feeling and relaxing your entire body. We have to go back to the OT to the first day of the temple… 2 Chronicles 5:13-14 (NIV) “The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the LORD and sang: (ESV) ‘For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever,’ Then the temple of the LORD was filled with the cloud, 14 and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the temple of God.” Dedication of the temple Solomon built. The temple in the OT was a physical presence of Heaven on Earth. But only priests who ceremonially consecrated their bodies could enter. At this dedication, God gave a visible sign of his presence in the temple, God’s physical presence on Earth. The temple was filled with the Holy Spirit (cloud) — “for the glory of the LORD filled the temple of God.” But because of Jesus’s physical, bodily birth, death, resurrection, and ascension, all those who look to him for their restoration/salvation experience the same thing OT priests did when they consecrated their body before entering God’s temple. That was foreshadowing symbolism of what Jesus would ultimately be and do for those who look to him.  As the NT puts it in… 1 Corinthians 6:11 (NIV) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV) Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. Now, “you are not your own” because you didn’t make yo