Live Free

The verse for 7/23 is from 1 Corinthians 7:23, "You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men."  NKJV

How valuable are you?  God thinks you're precious.  You are the apple of His eye.  The bible says that He bought us with a price, a high price.  God gave His one and only son as the payment for our sins.  We are His.  We belong to Him now.  So, if God purchased us, why do we sometimes act like we still belong to someone else, to the world, to our old sinful ways?  I believe the battlefield is in our minds, as Joyce Meyer and others would say.  If we don't believe we are who God now says we are, we will still act like who we were before we believed in His plan of salvation. 

I love the way Psalm 139:17 talks about how God thinks of us, "How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!  How vast is the sum of them!  Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.  When I awake, I am still with you."  It sounds like we are a big deal to God.  We weren't an unplanned purchase.  Before we were even born, our God was thinking of us.  His love for us was displayed on the cross as His son died for us.  We can believe it.  He really loves us and we are free to live for Him now.  Let's not serve any other Master, when the One that loves us so paid such a precious price to set us free.