1 Corinthians 6:12-20 (English Standard Version)
12"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything. 13"Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"--and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19Or 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, 20for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Isn't this what Lent is all about? Taking control of our bodies, for we are not our own. Obviously, controling our bodies is an everyday task, not just during Lent.
"...for you were bought with a price." What price? Answer - the blood of God. Pretty amazing. God purchased us by paying with His own blood. With that in mind, how can we do other than glorify Him in our bodies.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, unto ages of ages!!
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