It’s quite interesting how we generally
demonise the body in our bids to attain holiness. The body’s seen as the tool
of the Devil; the enemy that stops us from serving God fully. In fact, someone once wrote a “letter” on
WhatsApp to his body, accusing it of trying to take him to Hell! (His body
should sue him for libel).
This notion of the body being evil is not only
unscriptural, but plays well into the hands of the Devil. Firstly, it takes our
focus off the real culprit – our
MINDS. When a man tells you the sin he just committed was his body’s decision,
you don’t take him to church; you take him to a psychiatric hospital! That’s
where we take people whose bodies act independent of their minds to. Normal
bodies act only in obedience to whatever their minds dictate.
Secondly, it makes us have a hateful attitude
to God’s dwelling place! The Believer’s body is holy, in the literal sense of
the word. 1 Cor 6:19 clearly states that “your
body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.” Isn’t it amazing how the Devil, who
we’ve all known to try to take people to Hell, has conveniently shifted the
focus off himself to God’s living quarters?
You’ll find the demonization and ill view of
the body in Buddhism, Hinduism, and other works-based religions, but not in
biblical Christianity. Flogging your body, crawling on nails, defacing
yourself, etc. all in a bid to “mortify” the sin nature is not only senseless
but insulting to the Holy Spirit.
If we desire to live holy and consecrated
lives, our Lord says we should bother less about the body and spend our
energies... on the MIND:
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies”
– Mat 15:19.
AMEN.
More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss
them in Jesus’ Name.
GREG ELKAN
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