1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

My bible app is BibleGateway and this is their verse of the day.

I am leaving tomorrow to visit my sister in Maine and to lay my brother to rest in the family plot.

Normally I have at least two devotionals in works, one leading to the next. That is normal for me. With everything that is happening surrounding this trip I have struggled with my quiet time. That is the human part of life. We have not yet escaped our humanity.

So I am taking the easy way out and will post and comment on their verse of the day because it is the easy way out. It is not a cop out, just the reality of my condition at the moment.

“Do you not know?”

Those might be the words of a teacher or professor that sees their students might not have studied the lesson plans and are not prepared. It might have come after a test and the results are not acceptable. It could also appear in classroom discussions. What is important is that assignments have purpose and failure has consequences. If you are going to fail, the classroom is the best place to do it.

What are the consequences of not believing that the Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts by faith?

The Holy Spirit is the third person of our Triune God. He is our God in person and is the manifest presence of the love of God towards His children. To deny Him is to say that God does not love us and that is a lie.

1 Corinthians 13:13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Faith is weakened and hope is fleeting if love cannot be felt.

The enemy would like to tell you that God doesn’t love you. Don’t buy into the lie.

Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

While seeking a word on responsibility the only verse in the ESV where that word appears is in Exodus 38:21 where a command is given, responsibility assigned and directions given.

Between the command and the direction there is the burden of responsibility. When chosen each individual has a duty to the commander to live up to the expectations of faithful service.

This is a spiritual concept that assumes that responsibilities are passed down from God to HIs children for the furtherance of Kingdom living.

In the world responsibilities are thrust upon us by authorities that are not God and in many cases we take on responsibilities of our own choosing. Life in the world is full of such examples.

When we buy a house we take on a mortgage where the command is to repay the bank the money lent. We all know that it is not just that simple. The house holds value and must meet or exceed the responsibilities of paying off the loan if the owner should default for any reason. Upkeep and insurance become attached to the responsibility of the buyer.

Life is like that in that when we take on responsibilities for ourselves we do not always understand what burdens will appear that we did not take into consideration. Without getting political with these thoughts is very difficult because this is after all living in the world, not the Kingdom.

Every responsibility that is not met drags down the very fabric of society. Neglect creates a void that will be filled because nature abhors a vacuum. When a responsibility is sherked the one that failed is no longer able to determine how that void is filled. Evil is as likely to find its way in as goodness might.

If we who are in Christ look to the Lord for direction we will discover responsibilities of His choosing and avoid the mistakes we made in the past by seeking only to please ourselves.

Ephesians 6:7 rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,

1 Corinthians 7:17 Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.

“That the Lord has assigned.”