When Life Hurts

Today I am reminded that it doesn't really matter what happens tomorrow. I know who holds the future and I know that God is faithful to keep His promises. He gives purpose to life's pain: to mold us into Christlikeness, to minister to others, to teach us how much we need Him. I am His and He is mine.

I Corinthians 6:19-20 says, "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's."

Romans 12:1 says, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service."

I and my life are not my own. May God be glorified in how He chooses to use me.