Be His!

Do you remember playing “King of the Hill” as a child?  Object of the game is to stay on-top [of whatever] as long as you can.  The most common way you lost king-of-the-hill status was being shoved or pushed off.  That, of course, was prelude to the next game – wrestling.

Who owns you?  This may seem like a strange question but the world screams at us “be your own person” with countless books-magazines-seminars to help us do just that.  Even our President stirred emotions recently by suggesting business owners didn’t build their own companies.  Interestingly, ownership was also a familiar topic in the Apostle Paul’s day, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, Whom you have from God?  You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)  Far too long and intensely Christians have struggled against God’s Spirit within, pushin’ and shovin’ and [yes] wrestlin’ Christ from His rightful place in the heart.  Declared self-king, we make home [provision] the deceitful works of Satan – anger, bitterness, anxiety, hostility, and selfishness.  Christ declared our ownership in Himself as He prayed to The Father, “I have manifested Your name to the people whom You gave Me out of the world.  Yours they were, and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your Word.” (John 17:6).  Be not deceived, friend, victory in this life does not come by being king of your own life; no, it comes only by surrender to One Lordship -- Jesus Christ. Thus, “he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.” (1 Corinthians 6:17).  Are you ready to give up your rights to yourself?  Christ gave up His for you and for me!  Be His!