Weekly Memory Verse

It's Monday, so this is the day we see how well we did our memory verse for this week. Now, you all know that I have been very busy this week moving things, so I hope I come through with this. I'm certainly going to give this a try:

For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your body.....1 Corinthians 6:20 (NASB)

Well, I'll admit that I knew this verse before, but as I've said I have difficulty remembering where in Scripture verses are located. I've gotten this correctly, so my goal was met!

We certainly have been purchased for a price--an amount we could never afford to pay on our own. This price is the very life of Our Savior, Jesus Christ. God sacrificed His own Son for us! When I think of this, sacrificing my child for someone, I just become overwhelmed.

I tend to think of this sacrifice in the love that I feel for my own son--how full and complete this is and how I would feel if he were the one I had to offer as a sacrifice.

I imagine that God looked at this world and was saddened beyond belief--the beauty of His creation, and there is man going his own way, very few following God's Will for them.

And at just the right time, He sent His Son to save us--so that we can have a closer relationship with Him, come to Him with anything and everything, seek His forgiveness, His mercy and grace.

Since we were purchased at such a great price, God has asked us to glorify Him with our bodies. Our bodies are God's temples, and we need to take care how we treat and display our temple to others.

This includes what we put into our bodies, how we clothe our bodies, our words, our actions, our love for others. All of these are to be done to glorify God, not ourselves.

We are the bride (yes, even the men!) and Christ is the bridegroom. The bridegroom anxiously awaits His bride. What would we like the bridegroom to see and hear and feel about us?

I try to remember this when I know that something is not pleasing to God. Would this glorify God in my own temple, my own body? If the answer is no, then I know that this is something I should not be doing or partaking of.

I found a video that I would like to share with you. It is called "My Heart, Your Home". When I watched this video, this specific verse came to my mind. If my heart is God's home, shouldn't I be using my heart to be the very best place for Him to dwell? Shouldn't I be doing everything I can to glorify God in everything I do so that others may see Him through me?

Listen to God speak to you while you watch the video. I know He spoke to me.

So, now we'll move on to next week's memory verse. Let me get my "Embracing the Word" cards, and here we go!!

This week is the ace of diamonds, and it is a bit longer than last week's:

If my people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land......2 Chronicles 7:14 (NASB)

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Beth