Deaf Devo - The Deaf Mission in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States for Thursday, 15 June 2017 "All Your Strength" Bible Reading: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
1 Corinthians 6:12 You say, “For me, everything is permitted”? Maybe, but not everything is helpful. “For me, everything is permitted”? Maybe, but as far as I am concerned, I am not going to let anything gain control over me. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”? Maybe, but God will put an end to both of them. Anyhow, the body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. 14 God raised up the Lord, and he will raise us up too by his power.
15 Don’t you know that your bodies are parts of the Messiah? So, am I to take parts of the Messiah and make them parts of a prostitute? Heaven forbid! 16 Don’t you know that a man who joins himself to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? For the Tanakh says, “The two will become one flesh”;[1 Corinthians 6:16 ] 17 but the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18 Run from sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the fornicator sins against his own body. 19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple for the Ruach HaKodesh who lives inside you, whom you received from God? The fact is, you don’t belong to yourselves; 20 for you were bought at a price. So use your bodies to glorify God.
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When Jesus said to love God with all your strength, He was talking about our physical bodies. Paul tells us in our Bible verses for today that we can choose to use our bodies to do sinful things or to do good things.
The world is constantly telling us to use our bodies for pleasures like sex, drugs or other selfish things. But all of these things will only give us pleasure for a short time. God does not want us to hurt our bodies with these things.
Instead, God wants us to use our bodies to serve Him. Matthew 25:31-46 teaches that if we see people who are hungry, we should feed them. If we see people who have no clothes or a home, we should find them clothes and a place to stay. If we see someone who is sick or depressed, we should give that person comfort and encouragement.
As long as we live on earth, we can find many ways to use our bodies to serve God.
"Don't offer the parts of your body
to serve sin. Don't use your bodies
to do evil, but offer yourselves
to God." [Romans 6:13a]
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, give me strength to serve You. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
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