Our Today With Christ Daily Devotional

THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2022

TEXT: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

12. Just because something is technically legal doesn’t mean that it’s spiritually appropriate. If I went around doing whatever I thought I could get by with, I’d be a slave to my whims.

13. You know the old saying, “First you eat to live, and then you live to eat”? Well, it may be true that the body is only a temporary thing, but that’s no excuse for stuffing your body with food, or indulging it with sex. Since the Master honors you with a body, honor him with your body!

14. God honored the Master’s body by raising it from the grave. He’ll treat yours with the same resurrection power.

15. Until that time, remember that your bodies are created with the same dignity as the Master’s body. You wouldn’t take the Master’s body off to a whorehouse, would you? I should hope not.

16. There’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, “The two become one.”

17. Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever – the kind of sex that can never “become one.”

18. There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for “becoming one” with another.

19. Or didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece or property belonging to the spiritual part of you.

20. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body.

(The Message Holy Bible)

TOPIC: YOU WERE BOUGHT AT A PRICE

Believers in Christ have been bought at a price. Therefore, they cannot afford to live their lives anyhow. Our bodies are part of Christ’s and should never be surrendered to sexual immorality because no other sin corrupts the entire body like sexual immorality.

You are into prostitution when you go to bed with someone who is not your marriage partner. Our bodies must not be joined with of prostitutes because, if we do, we become one with them.

The Bible tells us to RUN from sexual sin because, like other sins, it will lead those who engage in to hell. Your appetite for sexual sin must be brought before the Lord so that you can be delivered from it.

QUESTION: Are you into sexual sin? If yes, do you know that the whole of your body, which is God’s temple, it ready corrupted?

PRAYER: Lord, please deliver me from sexual sin or any other sin for that matter, and help me to honor You with my body, in Jesus name, Amen.