1 Corinthians 6:19-20New Living Translation (NLT)
19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
Are you honoring God with your body? Are you following the Spirit of God, or your own spirit of never being quite up to par? Are you consistently beating yourself up, putting yourself down, over-eating, over-exercising, over-critizing yourself, your looks, your body? I know that most of us can answer these questions with a big ol', 'YES!', which means we are beating up God's beautiful creation; which means, we are basically living in sin - sin (all sin, no matter the sin) which leads to death.
Well enough is enough! It is time to stop focusing on death and begin to focus on God, LIFE! We must try to remember that He owns our bodies, He made our bodies, and, therefore, we must change our way of thinking about our bodies; the way we talk about our bodies, the way we torture our bodies with food, exercise, stress and strain, and the way we look at and see ourselves, (our bodies), in the mirror.
Friends, change is in dire order if a good portion of your life is spent being unhappy with YOU; who you are and how you were made. So, let's begin to live out the way God has made us. Let's see our bodies the way that God made them: perfect!! And, most of all, remember this: our bodies are God's and made by God, and He makes no imperfect being.
You are beautiful! Now, begin to live and believe like it!!!
