Body Conscious World

There are many products to clean up, paint up, fix up, color it, touching up our bodies. Always to ‘improve’ on what G-d has originally given us, never satisfied with what we have becomes a way of life more than maintaining what we have to the best of our ability. Watch that cholesterol, reduce that salt, eat more roughage, exercise clubs, exercise machines, etc, a large money making industery.
The Scriptures adds another dimension to concern for the body.
The day you became a Believer, something happened to your body and you see what great care was given to its design. What immense wealth was placed into its construction.
I was taught as a child that cigarette smoking was a sin because it was harmful to the body. I do believe that smoking is harmful to the body but it is not the only practice that is harmful to the body. Obesity is rampant in the United States and most obese people probably call themselves Christians. I wonder how many of these obese people would believe that their condition is sinful? This is a taboo topic and as a Christian I have never until recently heard any minister even approach this topic. The fact is that anything that is harmful to the body or damages the body or is directly opposite to G-d's commandments should be carefully reviewed and steps should be taken to change or repent.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of G-d, and that the Spirit of G-d dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of G-d, him shall G-d destroy; for the temple of G-d is holy, which temple ye are.
1 Corinthians 6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but G-d shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the L-rd; and the L-rd for the body.
14 And G-d hath both raised up the L-rd, and will also raise us up by His own power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Messiah? shall I then take the members of Messiah, and make them the members of an harlot? G-d forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the L-rd is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committed fornication sinned against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of G-d, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify G-d in your body, and in your spirit, which are G-d's.
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of G-d, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto G-d, which is your reasonable service.
Your body is the temple of G-d.
1. Be careful where it goes.
2. Be careful what it does.
3. Be careful what it ponders.
4. Be careful how it reacts.
With the Spirit indwelling you, every word, every thought, and every deed is in His view.
1. The Holy Ghost knows you.
2. He knows your strengths and your weaknesses.
3. He knows your sinful acts and your holy deeds.
4. He knows you better than you do.
The purpose of the Holy Ghost is to build you up in the body of Messiah to the glory of G-d.
He regenerates (John 3:3-5).
He indwells (Rom. 8:11).
He anoints (1 John 2:27).
He baptizes (Acts 2:17-41).
He empowers (Micah 3:8).
He sanctifies (Rom. 15:16).
He comforts (John 14:16-26).
He gives joy (Rom. 14:17).
He gives discernment (1 Cor. 2:10-16).
He bears fruit (Gal. 5:22-23).
He gives gifts 1 Cor. 12:3-11).
Surrender your body to the Father and stop living for the flesh.
Stop being so vain and tenderly care for what G-d has given you and treat it as holy palace for the Holy Ghost to dwell in. Get the proper sleep, food, excercise and tender loving care -- not so much dressing up the outside. Folks beauty is only skin deep, it is what is going on in the inside that really counts.