01/02/2026
today’s lesson from the Faith Rxd Devon chapter. Tenants not owners
2 Corinthians 5 says ‘For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.
Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— for we walk by faith, not by sight— we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord’.
So if this body is temporary and all we want is our eternal body what’s our relationship with our body meant to be:
1 Corinthians 6:18 says
Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
So the body we have isn’t even ours. We are tenants not owners so we are accountable for what we do with and in these houses. Keeping it in good condition then ensures that it glorifies its owner - Jesus who purchased us with his death.
Our life on this world is a blink of the eye in the scheme of things. Yes it is hard, yes it does have suffering but when you are with the Lord it will be the furthest thing from your mind. In the meantime let’s maintain and use properly and for his glory what we get to enjoy and use everyday
