"Don't you know that you
yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst?" —
1 Cor 3:16
My brothers and sisters, every
Sunday, we praise God in a church. A church is a place for us to meet God where
we as Christians pray and praise Him to establish our relationship with Him.
Besides, in the church, we listen to God's word and meditate on it to give
strength and salvation as God's word is spiritual food for our life. Thus, a
church is a sacred place since God dwells in it.
A church is not only a kind of
building but also a community of God's people. People collect together, pray
together, and share. Moreover, this fellowship consists of each person who
contributes himself or herself to the church. Thus, ourselves is a church
itself which Jesus Christ is the foundation.
In his letter to the
Corinthians, Paul the apostles delivered his message that they were God's
temple and God dwelled in them. This statement was not only addressed to the
Corinthians but also toward us. To build ourselves as God's temple, we need
Jesus Christ's spirit, a spirit of sacrificing, solidarity, loving, patience,
and humility.
Those virtues above are the
quality of Christian life offered to the world when materialism becomes the
value of the world. We can see that people are valued by how many goods they
have or how many benefits they have. However, for Christians, everyone is
valuable and dignified because God lives in him or her.
Let us keep maintaining
ourselves as God's temple by establishing our relationship with God and
others. We are the temple of God since God dwells in us.
Reflection on 1 Corinthians
3:11-23 by Fr. Aris Mada, SVD
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