Don’t you know? God dwells in you

Jo Black July 04, 2026 1 1

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1 Corinthians 3: 10-17 (NIV-UK)

10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. 14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. 15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved – even though only as one escaping through the flames.

16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives among you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.

As we come to the end of our month reflecting on salt and light, I wonder how flavourful and bright you are feeling? Ready to sprinkle and shine? Or are you heading into the summer concerned that the world is going to encounter someone who feels a little bland and is running on a flat battery???

Rest easy friends.

As Paul writes in verse 16 of today’s passage, “Don’t you know” that…

…We are not called to mine or evaporate salt to fill our own depleted shakers. We are not commanded to generate electricity or craft filaments for broken old bulbs. God’s Spirit dwells in your midst and will equip you for His kingdom work.

…Ours is not a ministry of striving or manufacturing. It is a ministry of standing on the surety He gives us and trusting that when he calls us to step into the bleakness of a world trying to live without Him that He will go with us to enhance it in the ways only He can. Jesus is our foundation.

…It is a life of trusting in Jesus alone to be the one who preserves, seasons and cleanses our communities. To be the one who illumines the dark corners, guides the lost home and signals hope. Jesus himself fills us with the Holy Spirit to be that salt that doesn’t lose its saltiness and shine like a city on a hill.

…You can put down your pick-axe. You can stop running like you are responsible for a pedal powered generator. God gives you grace. Grace for today and for tomorrow and for all those that you meet that need Him.

Prayer:

Jesus, shift my outlook to one of faith. Break the paradigm of me relying on my own efforts so I build on your sure foundation and shine by and for you alone. Add all the extra salt you desire!