3. The Better Way: Glorify God With Our Bodies
There is a better way. The apostle Paul reminds us: “You are not your own, for you were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body” (I Corinthians 6:19-20). We are to glorify God with our bodies, not glorify our bodies. As Christians, our bodies are sacred, as the Lord has taken up residence in our lives. If we speak poorly of your bodies we are speaking negatively about where God lives, about His house.
In the Old Testament, the temple was where God’s people would gather to worship God. It would have been sacrilegious to abuse the temple – to not value the place where God met with man. At the same time, it would have been idolatrous to worship the temple, to bow before the temple as if it was the object of adoration. The temple was not to be abused or adored. The temple was to be used as a tool to glorify God. Our bodies are now His temples. They are sacred and should be treated with care, but they must not be worshipped.
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