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The Character of God

May 24

A dwelling prepared for Him

Ellen G. White

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" — 1 Corinthians 3:16 · KJV

4. We are God's workmanship, and his word declares that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” He has prepared this living habitation for the mind; it is “curiously wrought,” a temple which the Lord himself has fitted up for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

5. The very flesh in which the soul tabernacles, and through which it works, is the Lord's

Creation's Crown 6. Man was the crowning act of the creation of God, made in the image of God, and designed to be a counterpart of God.... Man is very dear to God, because he was formed in his own image. This fact should impress us with the importance of teaching by precept and example the sin of defiling, by the indulgence of appetite or by any other sinful practise, the body which is designed to represent God to the world.

7. The wonderful mechanism of the human body does not receive half the care that is often given to a mere lifeless machine.

Personal Rights 8 8. Have I not the right to do as I please with my own body?—No, you have no moral right, because you are violating the laws of life and health which God has given you. You are the Lord's property,—his by creation and his by redemption. Every human being is under obligation to preserve the living machinery that is so fearfully and wonderfully made.

9. The physical organism should have special care, that the powers of the body may not be dwarfed, but developed to their full extent.—The Youth's Instructor, July 27, 1893.

10. The health should be as sacredly guarded as the character.

11. Jesus did not ignore the claims of the body, He had respect for the physical condition of man, and went about healing the sick, and restoring their faculties to those suffering from their loss. How incumbent, then, is it upon us to preserve the natural health with which God has endowed us, and to avoid dwarfing or weakening our powers.—The Health Reformer, November 1, 1877.