Psalm 90:10 assures us that “No plague shall come near your dwelling.” Since the Day of Pentecost, “The LORD of heaven and earth dwells not in temples made with hands” (Acts 17:24) but in the body of every believer, “the temple of the Holy Spirit” (1 Corinthians 6:19). The Lord reminded me of these texts in 2021, and I claimed Psalm 90:10 for my unjabbed body.
Just as well. After some suspicious symptoms, I tested positive for the Covid virus, which tried to enter my body. A painful headache and pains came into my arms and legs. I did take a few Disprin, which helped, and isolated myself from Lorraine. But, praise God, I awoke the next morning after a deep sleep and found that they had gone.
“Greater is He that is in you than [Covid] that is in the world.” I had a quiet day today, and so too did Lorraine, who had some symptoms — in her case more feverish; more like the ‘flu. By the next day we were both back to normal. (Many friends had been praying for us.)
A closing note: The NT word for the temple precinct is “heiros”, and the word for its internal shrine is “naos”. Every reference to the body of the believer as the temple of God has the word “naos”. So think of God as having enshrined Himself in your body!
Think also of how the guards of the old temple did not permit in its precincts anything that might defile it. Now think of how more protective God must be of the innermost, most sacred part of your body, which enshrines His Holy Spirit. He will not permit Covid-19 or its variants to enter it — much less destroy it. Remember this next time you read Psalm 91:10 or when some perhaps as yet unknown (or not as yet created) foreign element attempts to intrude your body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and repel it with Psalm 91:10 and other, equally defensive, texts from the the Bible.