You are not your own...

"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God" You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore Honour God with your body."
     - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

I've come to love the community at Door Of Hope. This sunday we've started a new series on the Babylonian Empire, looking at what God had done with His people during this time. The first sermon of the series was more of an overview of the themes for the events of the time period, and we had a good little history lecture for some context.

The big theme from the sermon was that "God is God and He is sovereign; We are not God."

The above verse from 1 Corinthians in context of its passage refers to sexual immorality/impurity with our bodies, but I especially like the reasoning for putting off such behaviours. It is about submission.

We have a God who has chosen us. He has planted the Holy Spirit in us. Now that we have given our lives back over to God (for they have really always been His), the sins that we struggle with are all the little thoughts/feelings/parts within us that want to make ourselves the focus of our lives; to take control of our lives away from God and into our hands.

YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN; you were bought at a PRICE....

That price was the life of Jesus. He died on the cross. Although I was already God's property, when I eventually made the choice to follow God, the choice He gave me to make, I relinquished any right I had to preserve my will, instead submitting to God's will for my life. This was, and still is my act of worship to Him.

Submit to God, for He is God. I am HIS! I need to give to God what is God's...

Amen?