Contemplative Bible Reading

1 Corinthians 3:16 (New Living Translation)

Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

Jesus is speaking to a crowd of people. I believe that what He says here applies to all of us in all ages. He is saying,

Hey, wake up! Don’t you get it? Don’t you realize what you are and what that means?

We are like the Temple. The LORD God the Creator came into the Temple to be close to His people. The LORD God the Creator comes into me.

In some ways I can never understand what that means. So, let’s try to grasp the simpler parts of this message. God is in me. He provides all I need to do the simple yet impossible-without-Him tasks like loving those who hate me and caring for the least of society.

Oh, well, that is not difficult to understand. It seems to be far more difficult to live. Perhaps if I just pushed my own prideful self out of the way.

God help me to do the simplest of things.