Read 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 Key Verse: may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (v. 23b)
To sanctify means to make sacred or holy. Today's verses are short but powerful. It speaks of the power God has to make what we might deem as normal, holy. And it speaks of the need for this in our bodies and souls. Our bodies, we ask? What business does God have in our bodies? All business. The Bible speaks of the body being the temple of God and yet some of us sometimes treat it like a place where we welcome anything or anyone but not God. What do we allow God to do in our bodies to glorify God? Do we not pray for healing when we are sick? Should we not seek to stay well by helping God with what we do to our bodies? The promise at the end of today's passage speaks of God's faithfulness to do just that.
The question we also can ask is what condition or shape our churches are in. And not just physically, but in our spiritual life as a corporate entity? Are we serving God or serving ourselves? May our prayer be that as General Conference approaches we would commit ourselves and our churches to being healthy before God and open to God's power to change us for the better.
PRAYER: Loving God, remind me daily that this body I have is Yours and I should treat it as Your dwelling place. May my church also continue to be Your dwelling place as well. In Christ Jesus I pray, amen.
