1 Chronicles 22:1-23:32; Ezekiel 20:45-21:32; John 7:31-8:11
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. 1 Corinthians 6:20
Once captives in sin’s slave-market, Christians were emancipated through Christ’s redemptive sacrifice (Eph. 1:7). The incalculable value of that blood-price elicits obedience from every recipient of this divine grace. God’s incomparable gift moves us to separate from the world’s impurity and falsehood; instead saints embrace a holy life, mirroring the True Vine’s character (John 15:1-8). Being delivered from shame and death, we now desire to glorify our redeeming God. The Cross’s logic demands holiness. —Keith R. Keyser
A sacrifice to God in life or death are we;
Then keep us ever, blessed Lord, Thus set apart to Thee.
Bought with a price, we’re not our own,
We died, we live to God alone! —H. K. Burlingham