Day 11: Bought and Paid For

1. You have been bought with a price
2. Release your grip on sin.
3. Realize that all you have is a gift from God.

Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or toobedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life (Rom. 6:16-22).

• You are a slave to what you serve. If you sin, you are a slave to that master. I learned not too long ago that if i wanted to have any sort of success in my attitude, relationships, anything like that, I have to put Christ first in my life. Period. I, then, can live as a slave of Christ. Pure obedience. 
• I know that my spirit was incredibly convicted once I figured out that I'm not my own person. He bled for me. That's a big deal. Bigger than anything I would ever do. I used to treat my body like it was separate from Christ. I was my own person...He wants me to feel good and be happy. No. I wasn't put here to have those sinful pleasures. Yeah...its true that He died for me and that all my sins are forgiven, past, present, and future. But when I said a curse word, it was as if Christ said it. When I drank that alcohol, He was drinking it. You get the picture. My body or mind doesn't belong to me. Its HIS. All His. 
• In other words: Don't let the power of my hand and what I want overtake the power of Him and what He wants for me in my life. Things I can touch mean nothing. Crucify my hand like Christ. 
• This prayer is what I need honestly. I get caught up in all of what the world has to offer, when, in reality, none of it can compare to what Christ did for me and what I gain by fully walking with Him.
• Everything that I have, is a gift. I know that. Sometimes its completely overwhelming to try to understand the sacrifice Christ made for me.
• " I belong to you, Lord, and I know you are going to work this out for good in some way. I trust You."
• As soon as I understand the way Christ works, I understand that situations and circumstances and happenings are 100% out of my hands. I can't make someone accept me. I can't make something happen when and how I think it should. He's gonna take those things and bend and make it into something I can't even imagine right now. I can't help how He works.  :) What a blessing.

1 Cor 6:19-20

Rom 6:16

1 Cor 1:4-7