“Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” John 2:19

When Jesus visits the Temple courts and sees men selling items and animals for use in sacrifices and offerings, he is incensed and drives everyone out of the courts.  When the town constables come and ask him by what authority he does this, he tells them that if they would destroy the temple, he would raise it again in three days.  What a crazy man  It took and a half decades for that temple to be built.  Oddly enough, it was not the building near where his demonstration ensued that he was talking about.  Yeah- there is that temple, he suggests, but you don’t realize about the other temple in which God lives.  Jesus’ body was the temple he was talking about.  In that body, God lived and worked as a man and human being.

This body, this  skeleton draped with sinew and skin, is God’s gift to you and I.   It is a temple, within which God works, and through which, God uses you and I to bless  the world.

I guess the message here is that if Jesus revered his body as a temple, then I too need to remember that my body is also a holy place, dedicated to the worship of God, and to being a residence of his presence.  Dedicated, consecrated, and celebrated.