MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Romans 12:1-8
Romans 12:1

"… present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God…"

A SANCTIFIED BODY (2)

God’s Word teaches us that our body is honourable. We have to nurture it, take care of it, and keep it from sin, then dedicate it to the Lord, and let the Lord make it His holy temple and use it as an instrument to fulfil His will for His own glory. "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thess 5:23). Do you have a sanctified body?

Be Separated from Sin, Self and Worldliness, for this is God’s commandment for us. A sanctified body must be separated from all kinds of sins, adultery, fornication and homosexuality. "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof " (Rom 6:12). "Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body" (1 Cor 6:18). If our eyes and ears are exposed to ungodly things, our spirit and soul including our heart and mind will be defiled, just like opening the car windows when a smelly garbage truck is passing by, and our car will be filled with that smell. A person who reads ungodly novels or watches pornographic videos and movies will surely contaminate and defile his soul, heart, mind, imagination, and memory with sexual lusts. How vital it is to keep our body "separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you" (2 Cor 6:17)! What about your body?

Be Dedicated to the Lord; otherwise we can never have a sanctified body. A sanctified body must be dedicated to the Lord to be the Lord’s holy temple. "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service" (Rom 12:1). "What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" (1 Cor 6:19). What about your body? Does it belong to the Lord or to you?

THOUGHT: Is my body dedicated and sanctified to the Lord?
PRAYER: Lord, may my body truly be Thy holy temple.