What is your body for?

The answer to the question above isn’t, “Whatever I want it to be.”

You may have heard some people say their bodies are an “amusement park,” existing to be used for their pleasure, fun, and enjoyment however they desire.

Well, if there is a specific purpose for our bodies, wouldn’t that inform us, then, as to what we should do with our bodies and how they should be treated?

The Apostle Paul addressed this issue among people living in Corinth, a place at that time where the idea of the body being an “amusement park” was practiced with open sexuality and licentiousness …

“You say, ‘I am allowed to do anything’ — but not everything is good for you. And even though ‘I am allowed to do anything,’ I must not become a slave to anything. You say, ‘Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.’ (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies,” 1 Corinthians 6:12-13.

Just as everything that has been created was made by and for the Lord (see Col. 1:16), Paul states here that our bodies were also “… made for the Lord …” and that “… the Lord cares about our bodies.”

There are some insights we can draw directly from Paul’s statement in these two verses:

• • We’re to avoid subjecting our bodies to what isn’t good for them.
  • We’re to avoid allowing our bodies to become enslaved to anything (other than living for the Lord).
  • Our bodies are not to be used for sexuality immorality.
  • Our bodies are a stewardship because they were created to be used for the Lord.

Because we now know our bodies were made for the Lord, that helps us understand, then, that our bodies are for holy living that brings glory to God.

Is that what you’re using your body for?

Scotty