[Songs in the Night - October 14]
I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection. I Corinthians 9:27
OUR text is a great lesson of itself.
It brings to
our attention the fact that, like the apostle, we should
recognize ourselves as new creatures in Christ Jesus,
for whom "old things have passed away, and all things
have become new," and acting from this standpoint
the new creature should keep a continual supervision
of the old nature, its desires and affections, and should
keep these continually under or subject to the new
nature, and the higher law should bring it gradually
into full subjection, yet hoping, yet praying for the
glorious consummation of the first resurrection, when
the new creature, the new mind or will, shall be
clothed upon with the spiritual body.
Such a keeping
under of the body will include wisdom and control in
respect to what we eat, as well as what we drink and
what we wear, and our every act, word, and thought. Z'08-361 R4289:1 (Hymn 150)