You Are God's Temple: Devotions From Time of GraceSample

Honor God Because You Belong to Him: My body is God’s workmanship One of the annual rites of spring all around America is the sight of clusters of grade school children trooping through zoos and museums on field trips. There they will find “helpful” information about the origin of the universe and of mankind itself. They will learn about billions of years of evolutionary development, the Paleozoic era, and Cro-Magnon man in the natural history displays. What they will not hear is anything about creative design, about a guiding mind and power that put the universe together. In museums and zoos, all the beauty and complexity of animal and human life is assumed to be coincidental and spontaneous, undesigned and meaningless. David, king and poet of Israel, had better information: “You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:13). Know what? You are not the result of a coincidental string of unexplainable protein self-syntheses. You too are a product of God’s knitting works. Your entire body is a walking showpiece of God’s brilliant design, engineering, and craftsmanship. Be proud of your body. Honor him with it.