JANUARY 2 Ye are not your own. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods—1 Cor. 6: 19, 20. At the opening of the new year, what lesson could be more important to us than this one, that we are not our own, but belong to another; that we are not, therefore, to seek to please ourselves, but to please Him; nor to seek to serve self, but to serve Him; nor to seek to obey self-will, but on the contrary His will? This means holiness in the most absolute and comprehensive sense of the word, not only separation from sin to righteousness, but separation from self (and the world) to the will of God in Christ— Not only are Gods people His by virtue of creation and sanctification, but also by virtue of redemption. It is therefore reasonable and appropriate that all they have and are should be made to reflect credit upon God their Owner and Creator; and this reasonable thing they should render with all their strength of faith, hope, love and obedience; for less than this were unworthy and unseemly— Parallel passages: Matt. 20: 28; 1 Tim. 2: 5, 6; Acts 20: 28; Rev. 5: 9; 14: 4, 5; 2 Cor. 5: 14, 15; Titus 2: 14; 1 Cor. 7: 23; 10: 31; Gal. 3: 13; Heb. 9: 12; 1 Pet. 1: 18; 2: 9; Matt. 5: 16; John 15: 8; Phil. 1: 9-11.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 02:03:22 +0000
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