Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy
Spirit? - 1 Corinthians 6:19
A number of years ago, a government investigation discovered that some truckers were
hauling garbage in the same refrigerated trucks that were used to transport food. Part of
the problem was that trucks making long trips could not afford to return empty.
According to the truckers, some considered garbage a dream commodity. They were paid to
transport something that couldn't be damaged. At the same congressional hearings, a food
science professor likened the problem to serving potato salad from a cat's litter box.
This "pollution for profit" scandal is nothing compared to the one described in
John 2:13-22. Jesus cast out the money changers from the temple because their schemes for
financial gain had desecrated His Father's house. But just as bad is polluting the temple
of our bodies with thoughts and practices that don't belong there (1 Corinthians 6:19).
In many ways, we are no better than those truckers or the temple merchants of Jesus' day.
We think it would be more profitable for us to carry the garbage of this world's values in
our minds. May God forgive us, cleanse us, and help us to cast out everything that defiles
the temple in which He alone has the right to dwell.
-MRDII
Lord, help us love what's good and right -
O make us pure within;
And give us courage to repent
When we would choose to sin.
-D. De Haan
Christians must live in the world, but not let the world live in them.