April 06, 2019: SOAP #3411:  Ruth 3-4; Psalm 64, 65; 2Corinthians 6

Scripture:  2Corinthisan (NIV) 6:16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

Observation:   In my limited travels, I have had the opportunity to visit temples in India, Sri Lanka, China.  Entering those temples, I saw lifeless statues and objects on which the worshippers focused their attention. What a difference is found in Christianity!!!

The temple of God is not a lifeless building, but a living person!   In the temple is not a statue, but the Living God!  Prayers are not offered to a lifeless idol that cannot hear, but to the God who hears, understands our prayers, and answers with love and wisdom!!!

Application:  I am a temple of the LIVING GOD!  In me dwells the “living God!”  He is alive today and living in me.  He is not the God who was alive, but the God WHO IS ALIVE!   It is good to know what He has done in the past—it is better to know what He did yesterday.  He is still alive and acts like He is alive.  He is doing what we would expect a living God to do!   When people visit this temple (me), they should expect to discover something current that the Living God has done/is doing!

Prayer:  Holy Spirit, so work in my life that people with whom I come in contact will know that the God in me is STILL ALIVE!  You are alive today and interacting with what surrounds me.  Amen

Pastor Leon
Making friends for time and eternity!