1 Corinthians 6:19-20 What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?… When Pompey captured Jerusalem he entered the Temple. On reaching the vast curtain that hung across the "holy of holies," into which none but the high priest could enter, and that only on one day of the year, he wondered what the dark recess might contain. He drew the veil aside, but the glory had departed and there was nothing there. How many Christians to-day are like that? Temples without a God. All beautiful outside. But when we lift the veil and pass beyond it to where the glory should be. there is nothing to be seen. The glory is gone. This brings to our remembrance the old legend which tells us that on the night before the temple on Zion was burnt, the solemn words of the retreating Divinity were heard sounding through it, "Let us depart." "I will arise and return unto My place till they acknowledge their offences." Should this voice be heard to-day by you, let your cry be, "Abide with me, King of life and glory. Leave me not!" And the answer will come, "This is My rest for ever, here — mystery of love — will I dwell, for I have desired it, even the temple of thy heart." Parallel Verses KJV: What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? |
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