But now, this is what the Lord says—
    he who created you, Jacob,
    he who formed you, Israel:
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
    I have summoned you by name; you are mine.

In order to live the Christian life well, we have to understand that we do not belong to ourselves. We are ‘doubly’ the Lord’s we might well say: both by creation and new creation. We’ve been ‘redeemed’ – bought back from the slave market, not with ”silver or gold”…”but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect” (1 Pe.1:19). We have come ‘under new management.’

This truth is a comfort to us. He will be with us in all circumstances. He takes full responsibility for His own property. He will never leave or forsake us.

But it is also a challenge. It has very practical implications for every area of our lives – including our sexuality:

 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your bodies. (1 Cor.6:18-20).

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God” (Ro.7:4).