What does it mean that your body is a temple? I’m Cara, I’m a junior at Valley Christian High School, and I don’t feel like people truly understand what it means that our bodies are God’s temples. I often find myself searching on the internet or looking at fitness accounts on instagram for ways to eat healthier and exercise better in order to achieve a “good body” and be healthier, but it feels like something is missing. God gives us hope at the end of 1 Corinthians 6: “you are not your own; you were bought with a price.” The things we do to take care of our bodies and treat them as temples are usually attempts to increase our worth for ourselves or people around us, but our bodies belong to God—not because we’re worthy or because we earned it, but because Jesus loves us and he died to rescue us from frustration, shame, comparison, and ultimately our unhealthy selves. What it means that your body is a temple is just that: emptying your life of earthly understanding and living in the love and rescue Jesus has won for you.
Today’s challenge is this: start with Scripture. Here are some amazing and encouraging verses: 1 Cor. 6:19-20, Romans 12:1-2, 1 Cor. 10:31, Genesis 1:27, Psalm 139:13-14, and 1 Samuel 16:7. Read them, pray them, or journal about them—however works best for you—to apply them in your life and in your relationship with God.
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