1 Corinthians 6:20

REFLECTIONS

READER! let you and I learn, from this interesting Chapter, how utterly unsuitable, and unbecoming it is, in a child of God, called out of the Adam-fall of nature, and redeemed from the law of works, to be entangled in courts of earthly judicature, when we are professedly looking for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Oh! what a reproach it is, as the Apostle saith, to see brother going to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers!

Let us pause again, and again, over that precious Scripture, of sinners washed, sanctified, and justified, when brought out of nature's darkness, and the shadow of death. And, oh! what delightful view are we called to contemplate, in being told, and with such an assurance of undoubted testimony, that our bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost. Solomon was struck with astonishment, in contemplating the infinite condescension of Jehovah to regard the house; which he had made. Behold, (said he), the heaven, and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee! But here we are called upon to behold God, the Holy Ghost making the bodies of his people his temple. Lord! give me grace to honor those members of Christ's mystical body, which are made the indwelling residence of the Holy Ghost; and never by any act of sin and infirmity; desecrate what the Lord calls his temple. Precious Lord Jesus! let me never lose sight of this blessed truth: that I am thine, and bought with a price. Oh! that every thought, and word, and action, could give glory to thy Holy Name!