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Take Care of God’s Property, February 6
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this
present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father.
Galatians 1:4
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You have cost much. “Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit,
which are God’s.”
1 Corinthians 6:20
. That which you may regard as
your own is God’s. Take care of His property. He has bought you with
an infinite price. Your mind is His. What right has any person to abuse
a body that belongs not to himself, but to the Lord Jesus Christ? What
satisfaction can anyone take in gradually lessening the powers of body
and mind by selfish indulgence of any form?
God has given to every human being a brain. He desires that it shall be
used to His glory. By it, man is enabled to cooperate with God in efforts
to save perishing fellow mortals. We have none too much brain power or
reasoning faculties. We are to educate and train every power of mind and
body—the human mechanism that Christ has bought—in order that we
may put it to the best possible use. We are to do all we can to strengthen
these powers; for God is pleased to have us become more and still more
efficient colaborers with Him....
In Exodus we read that at the time the Lord directed the Israelites to
build a tabernacle in the wilderness, He gave certain men special ability,
talent, and skill in devising, and then He appointed them to the work. He
will deal with us in the same way.... And although we may have to begin
in a very small way, He will bless us and multiply our talents as a reward
for faithfulness.
Christ has died for you, and you are to live as unto God. Let your
reasoning powers, refined, purified, sanctified, be brought to God. The
Lord requires the sanctification of the whole being. The mind, as well
as the whole body, is to be elevated and ennobled. God has claims upon
mind, soul, and body.
It is not in the power of those who have named the name of Jesus to
give Him more than is His own. He has bought every human agent with
an infinite price, and we are His property for both time and eternity.
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