TLIC FAMILY. DAY 194. JULY 13: YOUR BODY.

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THINK TOGETHER

What are you worth? 10 dollars? 100 dollars? 1 million dollars?

READ TOGETHER

God made you. God made all of you. God made your spirit. God made your soul. And God made your body. And God loves every part of you the same. He loves YOU which means he loves each part of you equally.

Sometimes people try to separate the inside part of us, the spirit, from the outside part of us, the body. But the Bible says that we should never do that. When Paul wrote to the Corinthians, many of them thought that God only cared about the inside spiritual part of them, and that he didn’t care about the outside physical part. They thought that God didn’t care about what they did with their bodies. But listen to how Paul explains it to them here in 1 Corinthians 6:

1 Corinthians 6:19-20. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

What we do with our bodies is very important to God. Why?

  1. Our body is the temple of God. When we trust in Jesus, God lives inside our bodies, making everything we do a way to worship God.
  2. God purchased us with the life of Jesus. We were bought with a price – Jesus’ blood. We do not belong to ourselves. We belong to God.
  3. Jesus is living his life through your body. Jesus is loving others and being kind through what you do.
  4. What we do with our bodies shows that we trust Jesus. When we obey, and give, and help others we show that we believe what Jesus taught us.
  5. One day our bodies will be resurrected from the dead just like Jesus’ body. We will live with God forever on a new earth. We will walk with Jesus and talk with Jesus, and it will be amazing!

Because of Jesus our bodies are very important.

With Jesus everything we do with our bodies can be a way to worship God.

DO SOMETHING TOGETHER

Look at items around your house and talk about which ones are valuable – which ones cost the most? What did they cost? What did it cost for God to purchase us? Talk to your kids about how they are the most valuable thing in the world to God.

PRAY TOGETHER

Jesus, you didn’t just save my soul, you saved my body. I can’t wait to live with you forever. Amen.

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