Ye are not your own. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s— 1. Cor. 6:19,20.

  At the opening of the new year, what lesson could be more important to us than this one, that we are not our own, but belong to another; that we are not, therefore, to seek to please ourselves, but to please Him; nor to seek to serve self, but to serve Him; nor to seek to obey self-will, but on the contrary His will? This means holiness in the most absolute and comprehensive sense of the word, not only separation from sin to righteousness, but separation from -self -(and the world) to the will of God in Christ.