WHO ARE WE? ? ? (Part-1)

The Temple

Dear friend praise the Lord for He is too good.
One day as I was meditating the Word, the Holy Spirit took me through Matthew chapter 21 and as I was reading the verse 12 "Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the merchants and their customers....”(NLT) I got struck. I could not move further, it sounded as if there were some sense in it. Then the Holy Spirit reminded me of my past when I seemed to be trading with Satan, buying and selling his nasty and filthy products, sinking into this world without hope. Then Jesus Christ entered into my life voluntarily and cleared the mess out of me. Shout Hallelujah if the Lord has done something similar in your life too.

As it is written in 1Corinthians chapter 3 verse 17 "...... and you are that Temple” (NIV). We are the Temple in which the Lord God Almighty resides. In 2 Chronicles 6:18 Solomon says "There's not enough room in all of heaven for you, LORD God. How could you possibly live on earth in this temple I have built?" (CEV). What an awesome God we serve? Even then the Lord's presence was so explicit in the Temple that Solomon built. If that temple which was built by human hands, if that Temple which was washed by the blood of animals carried such a glorious presence. But we are wonderfully and fearfully made by the Master Creator, washed by the blameless blood of Jesus, chosen and commissioned for His work, how much more should we be?
Let me take you to Luke 8:43-46 ‘Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped. And Jesus said, "Who touched Me?" When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes throng and press You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’' But Jesus said, “Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.”
Here the garment of Jesus symbolizes His glory, the incident on the mount of Transfiguration also suggests the same. That is why healing power came out of Jesus when the Lady with the bleeding touched His garment. Now in Isaiah 6:1 "In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the hem of his robe filled the temple."(ESV)
Wow....
Look at this Isaiah saw a vision in which the glory of the Lord has filled the Temple.
The Lord is so cautious about the making of His temple. As we read in Leviticus where the Lord commanded Moses about the construction of His Home, we can clearly infer that He is so keen in building His residence. That is the reason why He allowed His body to be demolished so that our bodies will be temples of His glory.

Don't forget that His glory is upon you!!!
You and I are the Temples of God.

Let us be the residing address of the Lord God Almighty.