Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
A temple, in the world this was written into, was where a god actually lived — not a symbol of divine presence but the specific address where it showed up. So calling ordinary people a temple isn't a nice metaphor about self-worth. It's a much stranger claim: that God's presence isn't confined to a building somewhere, but takes up residence in people.
That idea does something to the question of where you'd go looking for God. Not just in impressive architecture or sacred locations, but somehow inside the actual lives of actual people — which is either the most important thing you'll read all week or a wildly overreaching claim, depending on whether it's true.
Either way, it reframes what a person is. Not just a body doing tasks and getting through days, but something more like a dwelling — currently occupied, or available to be. You don't have to accept the whole picture today. But it's worth noticing the size of the claim: that you were built to house something, not just to function.
If you're currently a dwelling and not just a body getting through the day, who or what do you think is actually living there?
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.