When I was asked to post a blog for our website- I felt that I was being spoken to in a foreign language!!
Then I tried to figure out what to write about, so I thought I might as well get on my hobby horse! What an opportunity! So here goes!
It always suprises me when really focussed Christ followers seem to forget to look at the small print in some well known verses: for example 1 Cor.6:19-20!
19. 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?
20. For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
It clearly states that our body is bought at a price and therefore is no longer our own, but is a dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. That realisation should make us desire to take care of our bodies, and to be good to ourselves. God is calling us all into divine health and will give us divine strength because He lives in our bodies. Yet so many of us pay absolutely no attention to our diet and we allow ourselves to become fat, take no exercise and then ask for prayer for healing when the blood pressure and all the rest of our system goes haywire! The sad part is that church meetings do not help either with large helpings of chocolate biscuits and a host of sugary "goodies"(?) at fellowship time.
None of us would remotely consider putting a pile of rubbish or junk in a church building? Our bodies purchsed at a price by Jesus is a temple of the Holy Spirit! We often give the church building a good sweep make sure all is in order, but surely it is more important to take care of this temple- the one we carry around with us every minute of our lives? So why not honour what the Lord did for us and take care of our physical selves by starting to eat properly ...and stop putting junk food in God's temple??? Give it a small treat every day by doing some exercise...it makes us feel so good and keeps us in top form for all He has for us ....being in poor physical shape takes a toll on our spiritual and emotional wellbeing....its hard to make radical changes to lifestyle, but I would love to encourage you by helping with some easy steps.....so watch this space ........much love in Jesus Fatimah
