Glorifying God

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The Holy Ghost is a divine Person. He can, therefore, be present everywhere. He can take our human nature, consecrate it to God, body and spirit. So even the body is honored as a temple of the Holy Ghost. Is such a temple to be desecrated by impurity, by drunkenness, and the like? Even the decorations given to the body, and the uses made of it—as in the games of heathen Greece and Rome—should be looked at and judged of in this light by all who count themselves Christians. Pray for grace to glorify God in your body and spirit.

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