Not My Own
What is your only comfort in life and in death?
That I am not my own…
My life is not my own.
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. – 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. – Colossians 3:3
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. – Romans 14:8
“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. 8 For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. – John 17:6-10
and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. — 1 Corinthians 3:23
My work is not my own, but given to me that I should do it.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. — Ephesians 2:10
Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. –Psalm 139:16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide — John 15:16
for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. — Philippians 2:13
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it. — 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. — Hebrews 13:20-21
Philippians 1:6, 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
I do not work from my own ability, but with God’s supernatural grace and strength.
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. — Hebrews 10:14
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. — 2 Corinthians 9:8
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. – 2 Timothy 3:16-17
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us – Ephesians 3:20
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? –Romans 8:32
Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God — 2 Corinthians 3:5
I can do all things through him who strengthens me. — Philippians 4:13
The abilities that I do have were themselves entrusted, gifted, to me, that I should employ them in service.
And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ — Matthew 25:22-23
O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own. I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. — 2 Chronicles 29:16-17
Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’? — Isaiah 45:9
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” Has the potter no right over the clay — Romans 19:20-21
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. [...] Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them — Romans 12:3,6
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. [...] All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. — 1 Corinthians 12:4-6, 11
What is your only comfort in life and in death?
…Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me whole-heartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.
