Your body belongs to God- daily devotional by Pastor E.A Adeboye

Love Not the WorldDAY: Saturday 9 January


TOPIC: INSTRUMENT OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS?

MEMORIZE: “Neither 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” (Rom. 6:13)

READ: Romans 6: 11-13

If you love God, it will show in your hatred for sin. You cannot love God and at the same time be facilitating sin or be the vehicle through which sin is being perpetrated. Your house or office cannot be used as a brothel for your sinner friends. Your computer with internet access cannot be the avenue through which fraudsters are sending fraudulent mails to would-be-victims, or for browsing pornography while you pretend not to notice it. If you love God, you will hate evil.

“Neither 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” (Rom. 6:13). If you love God, it will show in what you yield yourself to. Your hands cannot touch sin – not even items that contain anything evil or anything destructive such as cigarettes, beer, hemp, heroine, pornography, idolatrous images, occultic books and regalia, etc. If you once ordered and used some charms for love, success, good luck or protection before you came to Christ, you must destroy them. Those love portions from India and books on astral travel must go. You cannot combine Satan with Christ. It can never work!

In the same vein, words, books, and dresses that are sexually suggestive must be avoided. Worldly music or records must not be entertained in your home. In several Christian homes today, people freely allow ungodly music. Although they say they have stopped going to discos, ball rooms and such like, the reality is that through the electronic media, these have been brought into the home without anticipating any danger. This is most dangerous! If Satan can gradually introduce you to worldliness through worldly music, he will end up polluting your mind. As a believer, your heart should not be open to anything that does not edify your spirit. Some parents are raising their children for the world, not for Christ. They see nothing wrong in their children dancing to worldly songs. They even make excuses for them saying, ‘She is only a child’. But that child is being groomed to love what the world loves! This is the reason for children abandoning the ideals of the Christian faith later in life. Watch it! Teach them early; Teach them right. No part of your body must dance for Satan!

ACTION POINT: Which part of your body has been an instrument in the hands of Satan? Ask God to help you bring it under control.