Today’s morning meditation is available below in audio and script formats. The audio version is also available for free download on the player.

Reading

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, they will experience destruction. For God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

—1 Corinthians 3 (NT)

Stillness

As your day begins, spend a few moments in silence and stillness, meditating on the words that you just read.

Commentary

If you want to find God, then honor God within you, and you will always see God beyond you. For it is only God in you who knows where and how to look for God.

When you honor and accept the divine image within yourself, you cannot help but see it in everybody else, too, and you know it is just as undeserved and unmerited as it is in you. I call this the “Principle of Likeness.” From this frame you stop judging and start loving unconditionally, without asking whether someone is worthy or not. The breakthrough occurs at once, although the realization deepens and takes on greater conviction over time. (CAC)

Prayer

God, teach me to heal the fragmentation that is evident in the world. Instead of hating, excluding, or dismissing it in others, help me first, to heal it in myself. Help me to have sympathy, empathy, and compassion and to work in service of the world’s healing. Amen. (CAC)

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Abbreviations

BC The Belgic Confession

CAC The Center For Action & Contemplation

CD The Canons of Dort

CIB Church In Bethesda Prayers

DZ - Donna Z.

HC The Heidelberg Catechism

MAO - Michael A. O’Sullivan

NT The New Testament

OT The Old Testament

RP - Ryan Phipps

WC The Westminster Confession

WLB Words To Live By

WLC The Westminster Larger Catechism

WSC The Westminster Shorter Catechism

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