HONORED BODY

By Rick Mathes

1 Corinthians 6:20 (NASB77) ²⁰  For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

The building that many Christians goon Suday morning is the house of worship. Church is your body you take to the assembly. You are always standing on holy ground because your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost. Wherever you are is church! The Word commands us to come together as the Body of Christ and His will is complete when we do and in His time Hewill return for His Bride and we need to be pure and holy for Him in that Day.

A real test of our spiritual fiber is when we are suffering individually or corporately. When the going gets tough the tough get going: ask Job. Jesus will withhold the Holy Spirit from us for a season and permit Satan to impose the mental duress or physical sickness. It’s in this very time our deep roots in Christ blossom a bouquet of joy, happiness, tolerance, good will and a prayful hope for healing.

Adam was made to work the crops and struggle with the harvest to provide for his family as we are. It is a double blessing to be responsible for the work of the Lord as laid out for us and to excel and take joy in the privilege of doing so. We are to love and pray for our taskmasters. We really are the “called out ones.”

A major distinctive feature of the Christian community is our benevolence and compassion to all those in need regardless of who they ae o how they differ from us. Race, creed, national origin, political preference all evaporate when a fellow human is suffering or in need of our service. We are slaves of Christ.

So whether we are worshipping in church or lobbying in government assignment, church or state we represent Jesus. When others, believers or not, get to know us, do they get to know Jesus. The differences of church and state fade away when we stand in place of the King. We are responsible to both to represent the gospel, the good news that Jesus loves you. This love of our fellow man requires that our body is constantly in desperate pursuit of holiness. We bring peace to the world gone mad!

This is what the honored Body of Christ is compelled to do.