My Body is About Him

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My Body is About Him

By Max Lucado

"Don't you know that your body is
the temple of the Holy Spirit,
who lives in you?"
(1 Corinthians 6:19 NLT).

Paul wrote these words to counter
the Corinthian sex obsession.
"Run away from sexual sin!"
reads the prior sentence.
"No other sin so clearly affects
the body as this one does.
For sexual immorality is a sin
against your own body." (v.18 NLT).


What a salmon scripture!
No message swims more
up-stream than this one..
You know the sexual anthem of our day:
"I'll do what I want. It's my body."
God's firm response?
"No, it's not. It's mine."


Be quick to understand,
God is not anti-sex.
Dismiss any notion that God is
anti-affection and anti-intercourse.
After all, he developed the whole package.
Sex was his idea.
From his perspective,
sex is nothing short of holy.

He views sexual intimacy the way
I view our family Bible.
Passed down from my father's side,
the volume is one hundred years old
and twelve inches thick.
Replete with lithographs, scribblings,
and a family tree,
it is, in my estimation, beyond value.
Hence, I use it carefully.

When I need a stepstool,
I don't reach for the Bible.
If the foot of my bed breaks,
I don't use the family Bible as a prop.
When we need old paper for wrapping,
we don't rip a sheet out of this book.
We reserve the heirloom for special times
and keep it in a chosen place..

Regard sex the same way-
as a holy gift to be opened in a
special place at special times.
The special place is marriage,
and the time is with your spouse.


Casual sex, intimacy outside of marriage,
pulls the Corinthian ploy.
It pretends we can give the body
and not affect the soul.
We can't.
We humans are so intricately psychosomatic
that whatever touches the soma
impacts the phyche as well.
The me-centered phrase
"as long as no one gets hurt"
sounds noble,
but the truth is,
we don't know who gets hurt.
God-centered thinking rescues us
from the sex we thought
would make us happy.
You may think your dalliances are harmless,
and years may pass before the x-rays
reveal the internal damage,
but don't be fooled.
Casual sex is a diet of chocolate-
it tastes good for a while,
but the imbalance can ruin you.
Sex apart from God's plan wounds the soul.

Your body, God's temple.
Respect it.

From
It's Not About Me