“Now the body is... for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.” As I have often said, “We were made for each other.” It seems our bodies are the last thing we give to God, but it’s the first thing He wants.
We are like God’s people in Joseph’s day. We’ll give our money and material things before we relinquish to our heavenly Joseph our bodies. It takes a famine in our lives sometimes before we are willing to say, “…there is not aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies…”
Many Christians treat God as a tenant in His own house, instead of recognizing Him as the owner (1Cor. 6:19-20). Paul literally begged believers of his day to give their bodies to God. You would think this unnecessary considering what it cost Him to redeem them; but still the begging goes on.
Nowhere is depravity better seen, than when a little muddy man refuses to yield to his Maker and Master.
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