One of the essential doctrines of the New Testament church is that of the Trinity. God is three in one, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each is a separate entity within the Godhead. Don't ask me to explain all of that, I can't..I accept it as fact on faith. My finite mind just can't wrap around the concept.
Inside the doctrine of the Trinity is the role of the Holy Spirit in an individual believer's life. Among other things, this Spirit is there to be our comforter, our guide and our intercessor before God the Father. The Bible states that the Holy Spirit prays for us what we cannot utter, and sometimes I have felt that being done in my life.
Chambers says today: "Have we come to realize that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? If so, we must be careful to keep it undefiled for Him. We have to remember that our conscious life, even though only a small part of our total person, is to be regarded by us as a temple of the Holy Spirit. He will be responsible for the unconscious part which we don't know, but we must pay careful attention to and guard the conscious part for which we are responsible."
We have a responsibility in taking care of our conscious life; those things that we have control over. That can include, what we eat, drink or take into our bodies. It can include what we put in our minds through our eyes. The conscious part is all we can sense and know, but that is plenty for us to be concerned with.
My prayer today is that I will truly acknowledge in my mind that this body, however worn out and sad, is a temple that needs to be undefiled by things that I put into it, and then to ask the One who dwells there to help me keep it clean for Him.
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