Any of you who frequent my blog know that I've been writing about free will and submission to the will of God...I'm also reading a book called "Every young man's battle" it's about finding sexual purity in this modern world and it is completely amazing and in two weeks it has changed me tremendously, but this scripture is my new line of thought on free will and submission

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price.

I am not my own.

I have no rights

to anything unholy

PERIOD!!!!!!!!

I am Christ's now. i have been for many years, but i now understand what that actually means...

Galatians 5:24 (New International Version)

24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.

2 Corinthians 10:5 (New International Version)

5We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Part of me has been crucified along with Christ, he bore the pain of my sins, in order to forgive me....Now i must start to live like it, and try my best to make every thought obedient to the master.

So let's review....

I am not my own...

Christ is my Master....

I have no rights....

To anything unholy....

I don't have the right to..

Sin...

Lies..

Lust..

Greed...

Hatred...

Love of Money....

Jealousy...

Inappropriate thoughts....

False Witness..

the list goes on....

It's hard to rip all of that out of a human brain, a human heart, it's down right painful sometimes, when you look back and finally see the trail of damage you left, but it is so worth it, worth it to be a man, for the first time in my life to be a man, i finally feel like one. sure i still screw up. alot. but the will to be God's is what's important, the will to fight for the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. and to desire and actively pursue being all that God's wants me to be. and to get on my hands and knees and be humbles when i admit my faults and failures, to forsake my pride in return for true Glory, that is man hood...

goodnight