Methodist Daily Reflection For September 29, 2022 : Topic – Do Not Defile you Body
Methodist Daily Reflection
Thur, Sept 29th
THEME: DO NOT DEFILE YOUR BODY
PASSAGE: 1 CORINTHIANS 6: 12 – 17
Read – Day: Eph 6; Night: Isaiah 30-32
MEMORY VERSE: 1 Corinthians 6:13b “Foods for the stomach, and stomach for the foods, but God will destroy both of them.
HYMN: MHB 400 (7.7.7.7.)-TAKE my life, and let it be
PRAYER: Lord God, deliver Your people from yielding to the temptations of the devil, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
The Corinthian Church compared food and sex and placed them on the same level. In the passage today, the Church had believed that as the stomach is designed for food, likewise the sexual organs are created for sexual pleasure. They claimed that just as when one is hungry one eats to satisfy his appetite, so when one is sexually aroused, one gratifies sexual passion in any manner he /she can have it.
Paul corrected this dangerous misconception. He explained that the purposes for which God made the body, especially the digestive system and the sexual functions of the body, are not the same. Eating food is secondary and it is for temporal arrangement because it always craves for another as soon as you are hungry. But to engage in sex reaches into the internal and metaphysical depth of one’s being.
Sex has a spiritual connotation. Sex is more than a biological and emotional experience; it involves a communion of life. For the Spirit of God to operate in you with His gifts and fruit, avoid defiling the body with illicit sex, and stimulants such drugs, alcoholic drinks, cigarettes smoking that can arouse your appetite to act against the will of God for your life.
Parents should seriously warn their children to be very careful about this and other sins which are common with youths today. The youth with all sorts of tactics in the name of being “guys” or not belonging to “the old school” or the “old brigade,” are always prone to falling into the sins of adultery and fornication. This has destroyed many of them in the process.
The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1Cor.6:19). The principal purpose of it is to glorify God. What you do with your body shows what is in your heart (Mk7: 20 – 23).