Not Your Own

From: Young Christian: Volume 34, 1944

• 1 min. read • grade level: 8

Young believer, God has said, ye have been bought with a price, and are not your own. You are expected to yield yourself unto God (Rom. 6:13¹³Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. (Romans 6:13)), and to present your body to Him, to do what He likes with us (Rom. 12:1¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12:1)).

In the parable we read that at the eleventh hour the Lord came to His vineyard, and idle ones were set to work. When the pay time came, the last received as much as the first.

Now, we are living in “the last hour.” Jesus will soon be here to reward His servants, and then the time for labor will be over.

You have just time to set to work, and, if you do, it may not yet be too late to get the same reward as that earned by others who have obeyed the command, “Go ye into My vineyard,” earlier than yourselves. Do not waste your precious moments, “Ye are not your own.”

“Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Cor. 6:19-20¹⁹What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? ²⁰For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. (1 Corinthians 6:19‑20)).

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