Take care of your body

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Selfcare”

Our Bible verse for today: “Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Take care of your body”

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 is a passage of Scripture I refer to often – in my own life and also in my preaching, teaching, and writing. I come back to it so often because it provides us with crucial insight into a very important spiritual truth. The Holy Spirit of God lives in your heart, which makes your physical body the temple of the Holy Spirit.

This is important. We must grasp this truth, respect it, and then live in a way that shows we really do believe it. In that passage Paul explains that on the cross Jesus not only paid the price for your sins so you can spend eternity in heaven, but He also purchased your physical body to be a temple for His Holy Spirit to live in and to work through. That’s what he meant when he wrote, “You are not your own, for you were bought at a price.” On the cross, Jesus purchased your physical body to be used as an instrument of ministry to accomplish His purposes here on earth.

Your physical body is a walking, talking, mobile temple of the Holy Spirit. You take Him with you everywhere you go and He wants to use you (your words and actions) to accomplish His purposes. That being the case, you have a stewardship responsibility to take good care of your physical body. You are not free to abuse it or to allow it to go uncared for or to deteriorate prematurely and unnecessarily. You have a responsibility to God to take proper care of the physical body He has given you and to then use it for His glory.

Remember, you are a composite being consisting of a physical body, a mind, and a spirit. All three combine to make up the whole you and all three are interconnected. If you are suffering in one of those parts it affects the other parts. We have to do everything we can to stay as healthy as we can for as long as we can physically, mentally/emotionally, and spiritually.

Unfortunately, many of us don’t pay enough attention to taking good care of ourselves physically. Therefore, we will now turn our attention to some things we can do to take better care of our body. This is a critical part of good selfcare.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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