Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? – 1 Corinthians 3:16
Nothing can assure you of the Lord’s nearness better than today’s verse. The Holy Spirit lives right inside of you, if you have put your faith and trust in Jesus for your salvation. “In him (Jesus) you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit” (Ephesians 1:13).
As you go throughout your day, whatever tasks you must accomplish, people you meet, or problems you encounter, know that God is right there with you. The Holy Spirit is ready to teach, help, comfort, and guide you. The Bible teaches about the role of the Holy Spirit, God, yet having a different function than the Father and the Son. The Trinity: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one yet three persons, is marvelous and sometimes hard to comprehend.
The Holy Spirit gives you revelation, power, and spiritual gifts to build up fellow believers (1 Corinthians 2:10, Ephesians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 12). He sanctifies you and enables you to do God’s will (1 Corinthians 6:11). Paul, in Romans 8:26, declares that He helps you in your weakness and teaches you how to pray to the Father. Yield to the Holy Spirit and allow Him to guide you in praying for the country. Jesus said of the Holy Spirit, “He will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment” (John 16:8). Pray that the Holy Spirit will do that in the United States during these trying times.
Today’s Verse: 1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Recommended for further reading: 1 Corinthians 2:6-16
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—
10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
