Blocks (May 22)

In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.
                                     1 Kings 6:7 NIV

Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 that our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and that we were purchased at a price.  Paul continues by encouraging us to honor God with our body.

Consider our bodies as, in a sense building blocks of the temple, parts of the temple, parts of the Church, or parts of the body of Christ.  

The blocks of the temple were hammered, chisled and formed in the quarry.  When the blocks reached the temple site, the blocks were given rest.

Blocks from Herod's temple

We, like the blocks of the temple; on earth, our quarry, are hammered, chisled, stressed, challenged and worked on in other uncomfortable ways.  We, since we were purchased at a price, the full price, Christ's death and resurrection, can look ahead to rest in the "temple," in heaven.


How are you honoring God as a good steward of your body?

Where do you look for rest when you are hammered, chiseled or otherwise stressed? 

Pray for obsticles to be removed and for safe travel to church.

In Christ,

David P