Purification of our Temples

2 Chronicles 29:15-16

These men called together their fellow Levites, and they all purified themselves. Then they began to cleanse the Temple of the LORD, just as the king(Hezekiah) had commanded. They were careful to follow all the LORD's instructions in their work. The priests went into the sanctuary of the Temple of the LORD to cleanse it, and they took out to the Temple of the courtyard all the defiled things they found. From there the Levites carted it all out to the Kidron Valley.

Hezekiah was 25 when he became the king of Judah, he did what was pleasing in the LORD's sight. When he came to power the first thing he did was to reopen the Temple of the LORD and remove all the pagan shrines and defiled things that king Ahaz had placed there before him. Hezekiah wanted his people to turn back to the LORD.

1 Corinthians 6:19 says: Don't you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

Wow! That's awesome to think that the Holy Spirit lives in me. The Bible says that the body of the believer is now the temple of God here on this earth. But! This also means that I must cleanse my temple, just like Hezekiah and the priests did in the Old Testament. All the old detestable things must be thrown out, all the old shrines must be torn down. I must remove the sins in my life that keep me from pleasing God.

Hebrews 12:1 says: ...let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up.

Dear Lord, help me to strip off every weight that slows me down. I pray for my brothers and sisters in Christ who are struggling with sin. Thank you for sending Jesus Christ to die on that cross and pay the penalty for our sins, thank you for paying the price for the crimes I committed. Give me the boldness to speak your Good News to everyone. In Jesus name, Amen!