A couple of related emails came in recently.

One woman writes in to ask to this, Pastor John, in a culture obsessed with diet, nutrition,

health and weight loss and with different information coming from every side, how can

we care for our bodies to the glory of God without making them an idol?

And Becky writes in to ask Pastor John, what does the Bible say about plastic surgery and

Botox?

Well, that's a great question on how to find, I think it's right to say this,

find the middle way between idolizing the body and neglecting the body.

And here's a good place to start, maybe, a massively important text on the body and God's

view of it and importance of it. This is 1 Corinthians 6, 19.

Do you not know that your body is the temple of a Holy Spirit within you which you have from God?

You are not your own, you were bought with a price, so glorify God in your body.

So five massive statements that should blow us away concerning our own bodies. God is in your body,

the Holy Spirit. Number two, God put God in your body. You didn't absorb him in some natural way.

We have the Holy Spirit from God. Three, your body does not belong to you, therefore.

Four, your body was bought by the blood of Jesus. Five, you exist in your body to make God look

glorious. You could write a book on that. It's just glorious theology of our bodies.

I think every man and every woman should meditate on those statements concerning their body.

When it says glorify God in your body, it means use your body in a way that shows that your

body is not your God. Use your body in a way that shows that God is more precious than your

body. Paul said, one of my favorite texts, I built Christian hedonism on it is Philippians 120.

It's my eager expectation and hope that Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by

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