I have been bought!

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

 "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."

*Bible Study Time*

Today I really thought about this verse, trying to dissect it, digest it, understand it fully. That's when it hit me: I didn't realize that I was for sale.

This thought stopped me and made me really think. And I came to this chain of reasoning: I had sold myself to sin, dead in my trespasses (Ephesians 2:1-3), lost to the father of lies, the devil. It was my choice to be lost in my sin. I needed saving, and I didn't even know it~ but God did (Romans 5:8).

So God sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, (who was willing to save me, Hebrews 12:2), to be the Perfect Sacrifice, and Payment for my sin (Romans 3:24-26).  I was bought by His innocent and holy blood, and because I have turned to Him and trusted in His work on Calvary, I BELONG to Him. My body, spirit, life, and whole are His. I am no longer my own. I never was my own. I was once captive to sin, but now -Praise His name!- I am to bring every thought and action captive to obedience to Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5).

I have established the idea that I belong to Christ, but now what? Look back at the end of the second verse. I am to glorify God with every action and thought. That makes sense: if they belong to Him, they would glorify Him. Alas, it may make sense, but it is difficult to follow. God, in His plan, still allows us free choice, and too often I make the wrong choice. But because He lives in me (See verses at the very top of this post), I through Him have the power to make the right choice (Philippians 4:13).

So my challenge for you and myself today is this: to make the decision and conscious effort to remember and act upon these verses. We are not our own, and we need to glorify God in all that we think or do.