Giving our Lives

I have been reading the New Testament a lot lately for Seminary, so I can finish by the end of next week. I have been reading almost every day since September, but somehow I am still only in 1 Corinthians, and I should have been completely done two days ago. Anyway, as I have beeen reading in an attempt to finish, I came across this scripture:
"What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and 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 Corinthians 6:19-20)

Sometimes, it is tempting to say that we deserve a break, and that we don't need to be constantly trying to become better. But we do need to carry on. I'm not trying to suggest that we have to be perfect immediately, or that we have to "run faster than we have strength", but I am suggesting that it is our responsibility and our privilege to be called to serve God with our bodies and our souls.

" Firm as the mountains around us,
Stalwart and brave we stand
On the rock our fathers planted
For us in this goodly land--
The rock of honor and virtue,
Of faith in the living God.
They raised his banner triumphant--
Over the desert sod.
We'll build on the rock they planted

A palace to the King.

Into its shining corridors,

Our songs of praise we'll bring,

For the heritage they left us,

Not of gold or of worldly wealth,

But a blessing everlasting

Of love and joy and health.

 

And we hear the desert singing:

Carry on, carry on, carry on!

Hills and vales and mountains ringing:

Carry on, carry on, carry on!

Holding aloft our colors,

We march in the glorious dawn.

O youth of the noble birthright,

Carry on, carry on, carry on!"

Carry On, Hymn # 255 in the LDS hymnbook