I read 1 Corinthians 6:20 today. It says, "you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."
I like most of us have wished my body looked different. I have fallen for those lies that are rampant everywhere. And also have fallen for the comparison trap which is not from God. So, how do we glorify God in our bodies? I wrote down a few things. You probably can think of for.
Here is Jane's quick list of how to glorify God in our bodies:
1. Acknowledge your body belongs to God. It has been created for his purposes.
2. Love your body as God loves it.
3. Know your body is an integral part of who you are -- just the way God made it. If you deny the way it was made, you are losing sight of who you were created to be.
4. Nourish you body. Give it rest. Move it. Don't abuse it. Keep it clean and groom it. Clothe it.
5. Without your body, you couldn't function as a person. You couldn't love others. You couldn't be who you are. For me I
couldn't be a wife or a mother or Baba or a daughter or a sister.
6. Your body allows you to love others.
What glorifying your body is not:
1. Conforming to the world's view of beauty.
2. Trying to make your body a certain shape or weight it wasn't created to be is not from God.
3. Trying to change it to fit what you want it to be is not a godly way of treating it.
4. Hurting it.
5. Being obsessed with it -- good or bad obsession.
6. Not giving it grace.
7. Using it to sin.
Think on it. Think about what it means for you to glorify God in your body.