Bible Verse of The Day – 7-22-22

1 Corinthians 6:20 (NKJV) 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

The phrase, “you were bought at a price” has always intrigued me.

What it infers is so bluntly true, but so easily missed if we’re not careful. In a nutshell, it says that if we have been born again, if we are true followers of Christ, we do not belong to ourselves. We belong to God.

And then what does it say?

It says, “therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s”.

This drives home the fact that we are not our own. And in doing so, it also states very plainly that we are to glorify God in our bodies, which belong to Him.

Let’s think about that for a minute so we can take in and try to grasp the magnitude of what it’s saying; our body and our spirit should be used to glorify God.

This is huge. It’s something that we need to get into our spirit, so we begin living it out in our bodies.

And look at the next time this phrase is used.

1 Corinthians 7:23 (NKJV) 23 You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

Notice how that verse ends?

Do not become slaves of men! This further emphasizes the fact that our bodies should be used to glorify God.

If we became slaves of men, and the ways of man, we would be bound (literally in bondage) to worldly human practices, which glorify the enemy of our souls.

But once we understand that we are not our own, we will be more likely to run from earthly, human ways, and more apt to run toward God and His ways, separating ourselves from the ways of the world.

Let’s remind ourselves, every minute of every day, that we are not our own. We were bought at a price.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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