Treasure Your Body

Perhaps you’ve heard it said that your body is God’s temple, so you should treat it with respect and care for it. I don’t disagree with this viewpoint; I just don’t find it very motivating when I need to make a change about how I treat my body. After all, there are approximately 6,697,254,000 people (a 2008 estimate from World Bank) in the world today, so we might think, what’s one more or less to God?

I do find it compelling to consider, however, that my body is my temple – and I only have one. When this one dies, the game in this realm is over. Have you ever thought that there is nothing you can accomplish, no goal you can have on this earth that doesn’t require your body? Even thinking, writing, and praying all require your mind. And you cannot escape from your body; it goes everywhere you do.

With sane sex, your body is treasured and treated like the temple it is. Think about your most treasured possessions. Do you share them with just anyone? Yet most of them are replaceable. Not so with your body, so take care with it! Sex is the most physically intimate behavior two people can engage in, short of giving birth. Don’t you want to share your temple with someone who will treat it with the reverence and awe that you do? (I hope you do treat it that way!) Being well sexually and committing to nothing less than sane sex are truly powerful ways to honor your body temple.