Care for Your Body

By: Joel Comiskey

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Many believe how they treat their bodies does not affect their walk with God. They do not exercise regularly or eat healthy food. Nor is it a priority. Spirituality, yes; physical health, no. They subtly have placed a wall between the two.

God has called us to be good stewards of our bodies. We have a responsibility before God and others to care for our bodies.

I have a good friend, a head nurse in an urgent care facility in Washington. He often sees patients who check into urgent care due to excess eating, drinking, unhealthy eating, and so forth. He told me that people often think that their bodies are their own and that they can do anything they want with them. But he has seen firsthand how selfish this is. Why? Because a person’s health immediately affects those closest to them. The husbands, wives, children, family members, and friends are the ones who nurse the patient back to health, visit them in the hospital, and generally sacrifice because of the poor choices their loved ones have made.

We should allow the Holy Spirit to fill us and give us the self-control to take good care of our bodies. We need to maintain self-control by eating healthy foods, exercising, and getting enough sleep. We should resist anything that controls us, whether sexual sins, gluttony, or any other addictive bad habits.