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God's will for us

It is God's will that you should be sanctified:  that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God (I Thess 4:3 - 5).

We met the term "sanctified" a couple of days ago; it means to be conformed into the image of God; to "look like our Heavenly Father" in our inner beings, or, as Paul wrote two days ago: to be holy and blameless.  Today, he gets very practical, writing about what this means for our bodies, which are designed to be temples or holy places for the dwelling of the Holy Spirit.  And knowing that the indwelling Holy Spirit is within us should determine how we behave.  Oh my, our culture provides soooooo many diversions, temptations, implicit suggestions that the "norm" is the immoral.  But followers of Jesus are to be different.  May it be so!  

Love and prayers, 

Dan


This Sunday, May 24
, is Pentecost!  "Come, Holy Spirit, Come."   
May 24 is also the day John Wesley's heart was "strangely warmed," as his life was flooded by the Holy Spirit.  I'm asking that all this next week each of us begins each day asking God to "warm our hearts with the presence of the Holy Spirit."

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