1 Corinthians 1-6: Body, Mind and Spirit

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.- 1 Cor. 6:19-20 NIV

It is difficult for us to separate the whole of our being into it's parts:  body, mind and spirit.  Even those that can do so, find themselves concentrating on one at the expense of the others.  In our time, we concentrate more on the body than on the mind or the spirit.  We pamper ourselves endlessly.  We push ourselves to the limit of endurance to make the body beautiful with diet and exercise or we stuff it with food and resist any exertion at all.  We spend a fortune on clothes and creature comforts.  An entire industry has developed around cosmetics and another around medicine to eliminate all but the most minor symptom.  All at the neglect of our mind and even more importantly the spirit. 

Perhaps if we could see ourselves as three  parts, just as God is three parts, we might behave differently.  Should we take care of our body?  Of course, just like we should take care of our mind and our spirit.  We should care for them all as if they were a gift from God, which of course they are.  We are not our own but we are very valuable.  We were bought, purchased by the Father at an enormous cost, the life of his Son.  It is him we should worship, not our bodies.  The actions of our life, our body and mind should all honor God and the price he paid for us.

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