1 Corinthians 6:20 tells us that we’ve been bought with price, therefore honor God with your bodies. That price was Jesus’ blood. Often times we really don’t understand what that means. I challenge you today to look at it from another perspective. Look at it through a different lens.
Honoring God with our bodies is one thing, but how about with our words, our actions and our social media. Honoring him should extend to all the areas of our life. The more we focus on what it means to honor him, the more we realize all the areas we can honor him in. Let’s look at social media for a moment. There is nothing like a good phrase or meme or GIF that makes us laugh, or hits home. However, there are popular phrases or stances that goes directly against honoring God and realizing that we were bought with a price. In our culture today we sometimes encourage attitudes that are in direct conflict with the Word of God. If we are not careful, we become immune and hit that like button or heart button in agreeance. Here are a few examples:
- “You do you”
- “Don’t worry about what anyone says”
- “I do what I want”
- “Don’t worry about anybody but you”
- “When people show you who they are, believe them”
- “Don’t be concerned with those, that aren’t concerned with you”
At first glance, these seem harmless. They may even seem encouraging. But that is the trick. I’ll be honest, one of my favorites was “when people show you who they are believe them.” That is not right. When people show you who they are, show them who God is. We are not our own, so if we were bought with a price, how can we just do “us?” No we need to do “Jesus.” “You do you” might be the most dangerous of all. You doing you can lead to you creating your own truth, reality and right and wrong. You are creating your own world which in turn has caused you to step into God’s place. This is a dangerous place to be.
We also need to care about what our actions look like and what our words sound like. We don’t do what we want, we do what Jesus would do. Jesus was concerned for people, how can we not be? We sing songs about God’s will, his way and surrendering. We have to live it. We often times encourage selfish thinking. The “me” mentality. Jesus gave of himself everyday. The enemy wants us to be so immune to things that are in direct conflict with God. These things are normalized as if it is just a part of life. When you are born again, you have a different life. When you know what it is to have a savior who is selfless, who is the very expression of Love, you don’t want to be left to your own devices. Luke 9:23 tells us “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”
In every area of our life we need to realize that Jesus has paid a great price to set us free. We need to seek to please him in everything we do and not ourselves. The first part of Romans 12:2 says, Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. We must not fall into the pattern of this world by conforming to the “norms.” We are not our own. The reason our minds must be renewed is to change the way we think, so that we will actually understand what is pleasing to God.
When we say yes to Jesus, we actually give up the right to live by our own rules. We take on a new found Freedom that only came through Christ. God set us free to so that we don’t carry the guilt and shame of our past sinful nature. It sets us free to love and have relationship with God. So as we go about our lives be intentional about how our words, actions and even social media are honoring God. We’ve been bought with a price and Thank God for his sacrifice.
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