USE WHAT YOU HAVE TO GET WHAT YOU NEED

“Use what you have to get what you need” is a common saying among we youths of today; i mean both the ladies and the men. At a point in time, it was a “ladies quote”, that is it was common among the ladies but now, not only the ladies do say or do it, but also the guys.
Now, the question is what is that thing you have and what are you using it to get? The thing you think you have is not yours; it’s for someone else who will one day come to ask for it and how well you used it. You think you have “yourself to yourself”, this is a capital NO, you are not the owner of yourself, and it’s not your property: you’re just a tenant in a house that has its owner.
The owner just gave you the permission to live in his house, that does not equates the fact that you are the owner of the house, the truth still remains that someone else owns the house and not you. That the owner gave you the right to live therein, does not give you the permission to use his house wrongly. Anything done to the house wrongly is a MIS-USE or rather said an AB-USE.
You think you have your body to yourself and you can use it to get all the “likes” you want (placement, shelter, clothing e.t.c)…. now get a clearer picture. Imagine yourself as the owner of a house and you decided to lease it out to a tenant, the only responsibility that the tenant has is to maintain the house in a clean state. However, what the tenant could pay you with in return is to mess up the house with dirt, damage the building with friends and also insult your ownership. How would you feel at this? I’m so sure you won’t hesitate to send such a tenant out packing.
This is exactly what you are doing each time you mess around with your body because the body is not yours, its God’s property. The scripture says “don’t you know that your body is the temple of the living God (1cor3:16-17)”. Your body is God’s habitation, He dwells in it so anytime you allow anybody to mess with it, you’ve just abused it; you’ve just insulted the owner (God). Stop exposing God’s privacy, He prefers to hide himself in you, don’t allow God to send you packing.
God gave you everything to enjoy but He said your body is HIS’, He didn’t give it to you, that’s why He made you in His image after His likeness, so that when God looks at you, He sees himself.. I believe you will not allow God to send you out of His house, you’ll ask me how, then I’ll tell you that you can loose your life and have nothing to gain. Everything that has to do with the usage of your body is meant to glorify God and nothing else.
But to think of it, what could have actually led you to such? Is it a job opportunity or lack of clothing and shelter or so that your boyfriend might feel secured and loved? Oh… I see that’s why he is still a boy and not a man (it’s not in age or size). He does not need to have sex with you before feeling secured in you. Or is it not better to loose the job than to loose your life?
Now, see this, do you actually know that you have something you can use to get all you need? You have something you’ve been ignorant of that can get you more than what you need. You have that same “owner” of the place you’re occupying, the giver of all things, you have His son (Jesus Christ), you have the Holy Spirit who is always at your service, to comfort you, instruct you, lead you, guide you, but you’ve not been making use of these that you have. You have the scriptures, the word of God, you can apply it to your life, there is a lot of it that can get you what you need.
I could remember when l fell on this scripture in Pro.21:1 “the king’s heart is in the hands of the Lord as the rivers of water, He turns it wherever he wills”…. I actually had a lot of people standing like “kings” (lecturers, managers e.t.c) at that point in time, I needed to get something from them and they were in position at that time, it was more like a frustration because they were proving hard, as if they needed something. Then I started praying this scripture and the favour came, even beyond what I wanted.
That’s what the word of God and the HolySpirit can do for you, this is what you have in order to get what you need, not an abnormal use of your body. Don’t sleep with any man/woman in order to get anything you need. Such needs when they are met through such means, they don’t last, they fade away overtime. It is only what you get through the help of God that outlast you. Don’t allow anyone to mess with your body for any reason, keep your body, it is not yours but God’s. Believe in God and not man and you’ll get what you really need beyond what you want.
If you’ve been in this before now like me, it’s high time you said NO MORE to abnormal use of your body. It’s possible, because I am a living witness of its possibility. Ask for God’s help to stand when temptation comes and you’ll overcome it.
God bless you.