Morning Devotional 052025 Walking Billboards for Christ

Liz’s Morning Devotional: Scripture selected from Upper Room

  May 20, 2025

2 Corinthians 6:14-18

14 Don’t be tied up as equal partners with people who don’t believe. What does righteousness share with that which is outside the Law? What relationship does light have with darkness? 15 What harmony does Christ have with Satan? What does a believer have in common with someone who doesn’t believe? 16 What agreement can there be between God’s temple and idols? Because we are the temple of the living God. Just as God said, I live with them, and I will move among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 17 Therefore, come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord. Don’t touch what is unclean. Then I will welcome you. 18 I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Good Morning! What a mighty God we serve!

We sometimes forget that we are the temple of the living God. Just as the Pharisees couldn’t understand how Jesus could claim that if they destroyed the temple, he would restore it in three days, we read the word temple and think of a building. When we speak of the church, we first think of walls, floors, windows, and steeples. 

When the Holy Spirit came upon us, we became the temple of the living God. God’s kingdom is not of this world, but of a divine, liminal space for which there are no constraints of time nor space.

How do we accept the realization that God is within us and we are the sons and daughters, the heirs, of our Lord and Savior? We, unworthy and unclean as we are, house the sacredness of God. 

God calls us out to be recognized as those in whom he lives. We sing the words, I am the church, you are the church, we are the church together and They will know we are Christians by our love, but do we recognize and exemplify what the words say? 

The other challenge is not becoming boastful or proud, or thinking, “Wow! I’m a child of God, so I’m better than those who aren’t. We, the children of God, are born to lead a life of humility and serve one another as Christ taught us. Christ did not laud his title over others. He did the extreme opposite while he became the loyal servant of the least of these. 

If a stranger met you on the street today, would they say, “She’s or He’s a Christian as they go on their way?  

Loving Lord, Maker of all things! We struggle with the idea of being a living temple. Help us develop clean hearts and minds so that we may serve others as you created us to do. Thank you. We love you, Lord! In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen

Thought for the day: Live as walking billboards for Christ!

Let Christ shine through you! Pastor Liz