Who Are You Living For?

1 Corinthians 6:12-20 (Amplified Bible)

12Everything is permissible (allowable and lawful) for me; but not all things are helpful (good for me to do, expedient and profitable when considered with other things). Everything is lawful for me, but I will not become the slave of anything or be brought under its power.

13Food [is intended] for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will finally end [the functions of] both and bring them to nothing. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but [is intended] for the Lord, and the Lord [is intended] for the body [to save, sanctify, and raise it again].

14And God both raised the Lord to life and will also raise us up by His power.

15Do you not see and know that your bodies are members (bodily parts) of Christ (the Messiah)? Am I therefore to take the parts of Christ and make [them] parts of a prostitute? Never! Never!

16Or do you not know and realize that when a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? The two, it is written, shall become one flesh.

17But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.

18Shun immorality and all sexual looseness [flee from impurity in thought, word, or deed]. Any other sin which a man commits is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

19Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own,

20You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.

God has laid on my heart these verses, and through experience of putting junk into the Holy Spirit's temple - my body - He is bidding me to make a change and clean out this temple. It is done through TV shows, movies, music, magazines, books…etc. It does matter how it affects you, or how strong you are that you are able to push the immoral things seen aside…the fact is, I am putting filthy junk into my body, a temple. Not very honoring to Someone who is Holy. But as I have realized this, God has repeatedly said to me…."How committed to Me are you going to be?"

As Christians we have choices - we can choose to fill our minds with immorality, or with God - His Word, His love, His vision, and RUN the race set before us.

Do you have some cleaning out to do?

"...whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them]."

Will you live a life that honors Christ, not your self, your desires, your pleasures?