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YOU DON’T BELONG TO YOURSELF
There’s a natural resistance to this statement, isn’t there? But it’s straight from the Scriptures. 1 Corinthians 6:19 (CJB) states: “You don’t belong to yourselves.” Or if you want it from the King James Version: “Ye are not your own.”
This Scripture tells us we don’t belong to ourselves because our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. We are just the house. He is the One who wants to direct and rule our lives. This is expressed again in Romans 14;7, 8.
But God not only owns us when we invite Him to be Lord f our lives. He owned us since conception. The first statement in the beautiful description of God creating the baby in the womb in Psalm 139:13 states: “Thou hast possessed my reins.” The word “possessed” is the Hebrew word “qanah” and means “to create, to procure by purchase, to own, to possess.”
God begins with ownership. He is our Creator and therefore the Owner of our lives.
Why do we want to take control of our own lives? Do we really think we can do a better job than the One who designed us and created us? And the One who not only created us, but because we were lost in our sin, purchased us back again with the price of the precious of blood of Christ.
We are twice owned!
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were an offering far too small,
Love so amazing, so divine,
Shall have my life, my soul, my all.
Many blessings to you today,
Nancy Campbell
