“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.” – 1 Cor. 6:19-20
We’ve heard it so much that we’ve started to believe it. I’m talking about terms such as “self-esteem”, “love yourself”, “you deserve it”, etc. We eagerly contend for our perceived “rights” – although we don’t have the right to do so. Truth is, we don’t deserve anything from God. It is all due to His grace that we breathe our next breath, eat our next bite and see the next sun rise. The following comments by Vance Havner helps us regain the proper perspective:
We are not our own, we have been redeemed. But while we sing “Jesus Paid It All” let us remember the next line, “All To Him I Owe.” Certain Divine requirements grow out of our being bought with a price. Such love demands my soul, my life, my all. We are to glorify God in body and spirit-ourselves-because we belong to Him (1 Cor. 6:19, 20). We are to glorify Him in our service: “Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men” (1 Cor. 7:23). And Peter tells us that since we have redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, we are to pass the time of our sojourning here in fear (1 Pt. 1:17-21).
Self, service, sojourning-all to Him I owe, because He paid it all. While we sing about the price that He paid, we had better check on what God expects for us, not to repay Him, but as the expression of our heart’s love to Him who redeemed us.
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
