As I had devotions
this morning, God's love for each one of us overwhelmed me. It started with the
sentence (from Jesus Calling): Ask Him to think through you, live
through you, love through you.
One of the scripture
reading is I Co. 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of
the Holy Spirit who is in you; whom have from God, and that you are not your
own?
I am not my own -- I
am His for His work. Wow! What a great sermon topic!
And with that thought,
I went to the web and typed into the search engine, "you are not your
own" -- and the match came up with an addition, "you are not your own
but bought with a price."
Bought with a
price.... another wow for me. Charles Spurgeon wrote: You
were redeemed then, redeemed from the punishment that was due to you, redeemed
from the wrath of God, redeemed unto Christ to be his for ever... the very
expression, "Ye were bought," implies a price, but the words"with a price" are
added, as if to show that it was not for nothing that ye were purchased. There
was a something inestimably precious paid for you; and ye need scarcely that I
remind you that "ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver
and gold;" "but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb
without blemish and without spot." (http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/1004.htm)
You
are precious to the Lord. You are precious. (Period). May you know today that
you are loved – for who you are – for who God has made – for being you.
