Being checked at the airport and the Holy Spirit

I never say anything when I go through the security, metal checks at the airport.

Not one word.

Here's an axiom that you might find useful:  the smaller the airport, the more rigorous the security check will be.  I'm not quite sure why, but that's the way it is.

Depending upon the time frame, and my mood, the security check can run the gamut from being a mild irritation to a huge frustration. 

Yet here is the deal:  The security checks at the airport are necessary.  For our safety.  As a precaution against physical harm from bad people.

We are told in Ephesians 4:30 not to "grieve" the Spirit by our sin - and in the context of Ephesians 4 - the sins of the tongue.

The Holy Spirit is grieved by our sinful speech, and let us know it because He lives within us.

(BTW, the number one sin in the body of Christ is not smoking or chewing or going with girls who do, but the ungodly use of our mouths through gossip, backbiting and slander) (Sometimes, as a pastor, I feel like the little boy with his thumb in the dike).

Your body is the Spirit's temple, and when your temple starts going places it ought not go and doing things it ought not do, and saying things that it shouldn't say, the Holy Spirit, like a metal detector in an airport (or now the body scanners) goes off when He detects something illegitimate.

When that happens, the only way you can stop the beeping is either to unplug the system or get rid of the stuff alarming the heavenly sin Detector.  If you don't want to get rid of the junk, you have to stay away from the things of God.  Because if you hang out where that Detector is, He will go off every time.

Just some thoughts for a Wednesday.