"Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's."
I have read these verses before, but I have also never really lived them out. If the body that I have is not mine, but God's, then all of these years, I have been deliberately mistreating God and disobeying Him by putting unnecessary food into my body. This body that I am in is not mine, but God's and therefore, out of direct obedience to Him, I should take care of my body. The body that I have is also "the temple of the Holy Spirit," and I have been destroying God's temple by not treating my body as such. Food has become an idol in my life, and that is what motivated me to get rid of that which I put before God. Instead of running to God's word for comfort, I turned to two candy bars and a Pepsi. Those things could not help me cope any more than a pagan idol centuries ago could help people cope. God longs to be our refuge. What is it that you run to for comfort? If it is anything else other than the precious Creator that fashioned you, it will never be enough!
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