Thought For Today - 5/6/09

I felt a strong need to put this in the blog today . . . taken from 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 (New International Reader's Version)

12 Some of you say, "Everything is permitted for me." But not everything is good for me. Again some of you say, "Everything is permitted for me." But I will not be controlled by anything.

13 Some of you say, "Food is for the stomach. And the stomach is for food." But God will destroy both of them. The body is not meant for sexual sins. The body is meant for the Lord. And the Lord is meant for the body.

14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead. He will also raise us up.

15 Don't you know that your bodies belong to the body of Christ? Should I take what belongs to Christ and join it to a prostitute (outside of marriage)? Never!

16 Don't you know that when you join yourself to a prostitute (outside of marriage), you become one with her in body? Scripture says, "The two will become one."—(Genesis 2:24)

17 But anyone who is joined to the Lord becomes one with him in spirit.

18 Keep far away from sexual sins. All the other sins a person commits are outside his body. But sexual sins are sins against one's own body.

19 Don't you know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit? The Spirit is in you. You have received him from God. You do not belong to yourselves.

20 Christ has paid the price for you. So use your bodies in a way that honors God.

Much love,
Joseph