Be His!

Have you ever played the game, “King of the Hill”? Object of the game is to stay on-top [of whatever] as long as you can. The most common way you lost kingship status is being shoved or pushed off. That, I observed, 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. 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 Who is in you, Whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body." (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Far too long and intensely, Believers have struggled against God’s Spirit within, pushin’ and shovin’ and [yes] wrestlin’ Christ from His rightful place in the heart.
Declaring ourselves self-kings, we make home [provision] for the deceitful works of Satan – anger, bitterness, anxiety, hostility, pride, selfishness and such. 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). I urge you, as Believers, don't be deceived: victory in this life will 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). Christ gave up Himself for you [at Calvary] - are you willing to give up yourself to Him? Be His!