Not Your Own

My car died this week and now Lisa’s car is in the shop for it’s annual inspection and won’t be back until tomorrow.  Today Brian let me drive his car to go get lunch and then Earl offered me the use of his car for tonight once we realized Lisa’s car would be in the shop overnight.  I noticed in driving both of their cars today that I’m a much better and safer driver in their vehicles.  Why?  Simple…they’re not mine and I want to take as good of care of them as possible.  This got me thinking about scripture…

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says, “Your body is a temple where the Holy Spirit lives. The Spirit is in you and is a gift from God. You are no longer your own. God paid a great price for you. So use your body to honor God”. Hhmmmm these verses are saying that in the same way I don’t own Earl’s car and I’m trying to take good care of it, our bodies are not our own either.  So the question is how are you doing taking care of God’s possession (your body) that He entrusted you with?