You are NOT Your Own

"It's my body and I will do with it as I please!"

Five days into the New Year? How are you doing with your Resolutions? Still strong? Still keeping what you deemed as important to you? Beginning to waiver? Possibly already slipped from your resolve?

"It's my body and I will do with it as I please!" I can almost hear those silent screams! And why? Because I scream them too!

You see, I am an addict. My choice of drug is FOOD and one of the scariest four-letter words I know. I have spent a lifetime struggling with food, and wanting, desiring, and giving in to my addiction. And my body has worn the effects of my choices and my addiction for most of my life.

When I resolve to change, which is most mornings of my life, I fold to the addiction before long, and I stay on the path of self-destruction.

What motivates me - or for that matter - YOU - for resolution to change? For me, make no mistake about it, I want to look better, feel better, and improve my health. Yet there is an even deeper reason. It comes from Scripture. Listen:

"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body." (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)

My poor choices have led to unhealthy consequences, and as a Christian woman, conviction of Holy Spirit has been within me for a very long time. Much of my life, I have ignored the conviction, and the whisper of my Divine Lover to release my addiction to Him and honor Him in all I say and do - including the choices I make for my body.

How about YOU? Are you entrenched in the hole of self-destruction, shouting silently or out loud: "It's my body and I will do with it as I please!"

Do you sit under conviction, as I do - regardless of your own drug of choice? Are your resolutions in tune with Holy Spirit's whispers? Or more about what you want?

These are tough questions each of us must answer for ourselves - with our help coming only from the Lord who lives within us. If we choose to listen and heed Him.

We have been bought with a price. Shall we choose, therefore, to glorify God in our bodies? 

Will we choose to listen to Him today, or to ourselves. What choice will YOU make?