Thursday 11 Jul 2013

Thursday Reading: Ecclesiastes 12:6-7

Key Verse: Ecclesiastes 12:7
7  Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Devotion:
There are so many ways of describing how people die but I think this is one of the most special places in scripture talking about our physical death. God is our Creator and He is the one who made us the way that we are, having body soul and spirit. He created us so that all three are linked into one whilst we are alive and live on earth. No manner of science can describe how we are beings that live with our consciences like God’s Word describes it to us because no manner of science can tell us how we came into being. God created us to be very different from all other creatures and we need to remember that!

Our body, soul and spirit act as a single entity when we are alive and well; or at least they should. We have to wonder why we do certain things in our lives when we know that they are going to damage our spirits or hurt us ‘on the inside’; but we do. What we allow into our lives in this physical world is going to affect every part of our beings and not just the physical. When Christ reminded us that we are like temples it was so that we would stop and think about what we allow into our lives. Christ came into the temple to chase out all the reprobates as they treated the temple like a market place and ignored God; do you think we should be treating our temples like dirt as well?

If we are going to allow our temples to be made filthy then we are inviting that same filth into our souls and our spirits; the very parts of us that God is trying to clean so that we may join Him in heaven! The more filth we allow into our lives the more we have to clean up when we see what we have done.

Christ is willing to forgive and forget, but if we are not willing to help by not bringing the dirt in in the first place then we are describing what Christ has done for us as something that we are using to clean up with; we are almost saying that it is nothing more than a cloth we use to clean up our mess with. God wants us to be living temples that are kept and maintained in a proper state. Don’t wait until the end before you try to clean up the mess because that may well be too late!

Points to Ponder:
What do you let into your life?

Do you think The Holy Spirit like what you let in?