Glorify God in your bodies!

(1Corinthians 6:20) “For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

There is something exhilarating about the mornings; the dawning of a new day speaks of so much hope and potential. One is not completely sure how the day will pan out, but as I watch the sun break the horizon, I now see what I had just imagined, its beauty as it obeys God’s command and rises revealing its own glory. I suppose one would be tempted to forget the creator when one is so taken by the beauty of a sunrise, but I will not forget my God through creation and I will stand back and honour Him as I admire the brilliance of His creation. Even God needed to rest after the brilliance of His creation. Did creation sap Him of His energy or did he just need to sit back and admire it? I am not sure why, however one day we will know for sure.

Do you remember where the downward slide began for mankind as they forgot to honour God for whom He is? “For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools.” (Romans 1:20-22)

Something very similar I believe happened in heaven a very long time ago. The angels would have gatherer before the throne of God as God had instructed and they all would have seen the same thing, God in His entire splendor seated upon His throne. But the eyes of some drifted from God the creator to the grandeur of His creation that surrounded the throne, Satan himself! One third of the angels chose to follow the creation (the devil) and not the creator. I suppose no differently in type as man served the creation as their god; the cow is a sacred animal to some, the reason they are kind to it is that they believe they may be reincarnated as one. This type of reasoning is not only wicked but an abomination in the eyes of God, and for this very reason He has given them over to the lusts of their hearts, sin their ruler, as it was once ours. Homosexuality now a normality and acceptable in most of the western world. Why? Let us cut to the chase. Because men chose to ignore the God of creation and would not give Him honour as the God of creation. This however will never excuse them, it has brought with it God’s judgments. Without the covering of Christ’s blood for their sins they will be doom to a lost eternity, where their teeth will grind with never-ending pain as they rue the day they chose to ignore God as God.

Let us therefore always be quick to honour our God and Father in and through His creation. But never let us view the beauty of creation at the expense of our great redeemers sacrifice on our behalf. For you are aware that this world as we know it will be folded up like a garment and thrown into the oven. God will create a new heaven and a new earth; this world will come to an end no matter how hard civilization tries to save it. “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.” (Revelation 21:1)

Let us therefore focus on that which is important, the new heaven and the new earth as this day will eventually arrive, our minds may not be schooled to visualize it with any accuracy, but God had declared it and it will come to pass. Let us train ourselves not to waste our live with fruitless trivia that will be burnt up at the works judgment, let us seek God’s face in and through the perfect work of Calvary, where our great Saviour paid the ransom for our folly and sin. As children of God let us now honour our God for who He is and let us not waste our lives but rather look to find the precious treasures that we have been called to walk in, those treasures that we will take with us into eternal glory, the new heaven and the new earth. Let us learn to present our bodies as living sacrifice unto God, let us walk in the Spirit and we will not fulfill the lusts of our flesh as we waste our precious time on trivial nonsense.

It all began with our great Saviour, the Lord Jesus and it will all end with Him, therefore let today be a day filled with His glory as we honour Him as God.

We have it in our power to direct today’s conversation in glorify our Saviour as God and so let us remember to honour Him with it, Amen!

Signing off

Tyrone