Are you tired like me of everyone constantly telling you what your body should look like, what you should eat, and wear, the exercises you need to do and all? There is so much misrepresentation out there of what needs to be done that people are practically slaves to their bodies, slaves to food, and slaves to exercise, amongst other things.

You don’t even need to be engaged in mainstream media for things to be thrown in your face. I can’t even do a Google search on my phone now without an advert popping up. That’s the world we live in.

Having said this, does that make food, exercise, clothing, and looking after our bodies bad, of course not. No matter who you are spiritually,  or how intellectual you are, you are wrapped up in a body, and that happens to be your only entry point to planet Earth. You are illegal on this planet without a body, no matter what form you take . That’s how God designed it.

So your body is probably more important than you think, remember,  your action is a reflection of your thoughts so before you jump up in response to how much you know, the question will be, what do you reflect?

This topic might probably take a few blog posts, so let’s see how it goes.
Starting from the beginning, God is the creator of your body

Genesis 2:7 ESV
then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

You, as a human being, are a creation of God, and He created you, Spirit, Soul, and body.

For more study on that, you can look up a book with the same topic, “spirit,  soul, and body ” by Andrew Wommack.

These 3 parts to us are so important that they all need each other to thrive on earth. Your spirit is who you really are because your spirit is the one that connects to God once you receive Jesus into your heart. Your newborn spirit after you receive the gift of salvation becomes like God yet still remains in your body. Your spirit doesn’t say, “I am a different person now. Therefore, I need to escape from this flesh. No, that’s not the case. Your body still houses your spirit, though unchanged.”

The body is so important that even when God wanted to rescue man from sin and death,  He couldn’t just stay up in heaven and do it, He had to take a human form himself to assess earth by coming as a baby born in a menger,  so he can have a body.

Matthew 1:23 ESV
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
Even God had to come to earth in human form, having a body.

So, this body of yours, what is its primary purpose?

Before anything else,  your body is a house for God to live in. You are the house of God!

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, [20] for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

If there is one takeaway from this blog, it should be ‘YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN’.

Your very existence on earth is to be the place that God resides. That statement refutes statements like, it’s my body, I can do whatever I like with it… no, it’s not your body. It belongs to God and for the purpose of worship Romans 12: 1.

This simply makes us stewards.

As we go on this journey of looking after your body, we will look at what a beautiful body means, health and well-being, food and hygiene, amongst others.

Every blessing
Kingdom