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It’s very interesting to me how our physical, spiritual, and intellectual parts of our being rely on each other to stay healthy. For instance when you don’t take care of your physical body, often we experience what I call the fog of fatigue. When Bobbi and I started working toward becoming healthier, we change what and how we ate, along with some moderate exercise to loose weight. And we did all of this to get off the medications we were on. However, I did not realize how fatigued I was most of the time. And when you are fatigued, it’s difficult at best to stay intellectually and spiritually healthy.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NIV) Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
When Paul wrote this, he was actually writing about sexual sins – and how by living this way, we sin against our own bodies. But there is also a broader principle here that we should take care of this temple that each of us have been given as best we can.
Joe Gorman – in his book Healthy. Happy. Holy. 7 Practices toward a holistic life. (P.116). writes this: “Exercise is a stewardship issue. God created us to live out our divine calling through out bodies, able-bodied or not.”
Our physical body, is as much a resource we’ve been entrusted to care for, as any other resource we posses. When Paul was writing Timothy he mentions this.
1 Timothy 4:7-9 (NIV) Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. This is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance.
Here Paul is saying to Timothy that there is some value in physical training of our bodies. But not to the deficit of taking care of our spiritual needs. And yet – it still was mentioned here as something we should do.
It’s interesting to me that the Bible also tells us…
Genesis 3:8 (NIV) Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day…
The Bible tells us that God Himself was walking here on Earth in the Garden of Eden, in the cool of the day (probably evening). We are indeed made in the image of God and just as God is three in one so are we. We are physical, spiritual, and intellectual. Jesus talked about moderation in the Bible, which some would say is balance. Often He spoke of not going to one extreme or the other. The point is that as much as we need to care for our spiritual and intellectual parts of our being, we also need to be good stewards of our physical bodies. Sometimes our spirit and our mind, need us to just get up and move. So let’s move a little bit…