MY BODY, HIS PROPERTY
Memorise: I beseech you
therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans 12:1
Read: 1st
Corinthians 3:16-17, Bible in one year: 2nd Kings 21:19-23:27,
Proverbs 25:1-14
The passion of God behind the
admonition in today’s memory verse is evident. The goodness of God and His
commitment to our wellbeing is far beyond our imagination. Can you comprehend
this: that having paid the ultimate price for our redemption, He is still
passionately pleading with those of us that are His, for our own sake, to keep
our bodies? Though it is in our own best interest, yet He pleads with us. To
start with, a person that says he or she is enjoying himself with cigarette
smoking or taking of hard drug does not know what he is saying. Such a person
is destroying himself in bits. Likewise, the fellow given to alcohol is
destroying and cutting short his age systematically. What about the fornicator
and adulterer? The major vehicle for HIV infection is no other than sexual
immoralities such as pre-martial sex, homosexuality, lesbianism and the likes.
Presenting your body as a living sacrifice means denying your body the fashion
or pleasures that are at variance with the ways of the kingdom you belong to. This
includes denying yourself such aberrations like exposing your body through
clothes that are in vogue.
If the body of the believer
in Christ is the temple
of God, and God is holy,
how does a child of God think he or she will be full of the Holy Spirit while
unabatedly indulging in evil habits? Somebody must be deceiving himself or
herself somehow. The Bible warns us not to grieve the Holy Spirit (Ephesians
4:30). What other possible ways could the Holy Spirit be grieved, if not by
rendering His habitation non-conducive for Him to dwell in? Is it not that
those defiling His temple (our bodies) are asking Him (the Holy Spirit) to pack
up and go elsewhere?
The care of our body includes
feeding it with the right things –good food and not junk food that causes
obesity, and taking the right quantity of food at a time (gluttony is condemned
by the Bible). Likewise, drinks must be non-alcoholic and non-nicotinic.
Spiritually, feed on the word of God. Besides, treat the body with natural
means for its refreshing like sleeping moderately and not inducing yourself
with drugs to sleep. Also, use your body rightly. It is good to work hard, but
then, learn, also to give it its due rest. Don’t use the body for immorality in
any form. Learn not to incur God’s wrath, it is your duty to deny it those
things. You can do all these because the power of God through Christ is now in
you. God is not demanding what you cannot do.
Key Point
God desires purity of the
heart as well as purity of the body.
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