day no. 15,958: the temple of God between your temples

“Have we come to realize that our ‘body is the temple of the Holy Spirit’? If so, we must be careful to keep it undefiled for Him. We have to remember that our conscious life, even though only a small part of our total person, is to be regarded by us as a ‘temple of the Holy Spirit.’"

— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

God must live in our minds. He must rule and reign there as He does in our physical bodies. What we do with our hands and where we point our feet must be determined by Him, but what we do and where we go must be informed by minds submitted to the mind of Christ. He must reside in our bodies and in our minds. Each is a room in the temple of our worship. We give sacrifices of praise and gratitude at the altar in our thoughts. We bring our bodies before Him. Our bodies and our brains cannot be disconnected. They are both to be brought hand in hand to the feet of Jesus and made to serve Him.

Romans 12:1-2

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

The temple of God must be located between our temples.

1 Peter 1:13

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 13:15

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Our minds must be kept swept and clean. Every thought must be barefoot before our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Every meditation must be made to bow. Our hearts, heads, and hands are a temple of the presence of God on earth and as such, must be kept to reflect that fact.