Contemplative Bible Reading

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (New Living Translation)

¹⁹ Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, ²⁰ for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

A temple:

A building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence. (Google define)

The body is the place devoted to the worship of the Spirit of God. What does it mean to go to my body to worship the Spirit of God?

I don’t know.

Let’s list some possible answers:

• I’m always with my body, so I’m always worshiping
• I’m always with my body, so I should be always worshiping
• I should take great care of my body
• I should learn how to take great care of my body
• Maybe this is why drunkenness and gluttony are sins
• I can worship the Spirit of God as it is in the bodies of other Christians

This last one is something I’ve never considered before. The Spirit of God is in the bodies of other Christians. How do I treat those temples? How do I act when I see those people mistreating their bodies? How do I act when I see those people cherishing their bodies?

How is that I started with one question but ended with several that I can’t answer?