[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: God cares about your physical wellbeing

Read: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Meditation verse:

“Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in  you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?” (1 Corinthians 6:19).

God is not only interested in the salvation of your soul. He cares about your  physical wellbeing. 3 John 2 says “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all  things and be in health, just as your soul prospers”. In 1 Corinthians 6:19, your  body is referred to as the temple of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit dwells inside  of you. You carry God’s Spirit in you wherever you go. This should catch your  attention because what you do with your body matters to God. How do you treat  your body? How are you caring for God’s temple? What are you putting into it  or doing with it? The bible has a lot to say about how to treat your body.  

1 Corinthians 6:12-13 says, “All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of  any. Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both  it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the  Lord for the body”. 1 Corinthians 6:18 says, “Flee sexual immorality. Every sin  that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins  against his own body”. Ephesians 5:18 says, “And do not be drunk with wine, in  which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit”. Galatians 5:19-24 says, “Now  the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness,  lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath,  selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries,  and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past,  that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the  fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness,  faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who  are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires”. 1 Timothy 4:8  says, “for bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things,  having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come”.  

Treating your body as the temple of God, keeping it healthy and in its fully  functional state through proper nourishment, exercise, and abstinence from  anything that will harm it, is well pleasing to God. 1 Corinthians 9:27 says, “but I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to  others, I myself should become disqualified”. So, discipline your body today.

IN HIS PRESENCE is written by Pst (Mrs) Oke Chinye, Founder of The Rock Teaching Ministry (TRTM).

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