“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you” (2 Corinthians 6:17).

The verse before declares that we are God’s temple for He dwells in us and walks in us. In that verse He also identifies Himself as our God, and us as His people.

I don’t have to try to be His child — I am His child!

One result of that? God walks in me. Or to put it another way, God does His living through me.

I want that!

So I must choose to separate myself from that which is ungodly around me. I shouldn’t even touch it.

I want my attitudes to show God walking in me. I want my driving to show God walking in me. I want my reading to show God walking in me.

Can God see Himself when He looks at my life?

Someday I must appear before the judgment seat of Jesus. Doing so is not optional; I have no choice in the matter. I must appear there.

Even the timing of that appearance is not mine to decide. That appearance could be today or fifteen years from today. Again, the choice is His.

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, where it be good or bad” (2 Corinthians 5:10).

Thankfully, He has forewarned me what that judgment will be about.

I will be rewarded good or evil according to the good or evil I have done with my body.

Only as I yield it to Him can I use my body in a way pleasing to Him.

In that I do have a choice!