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Embody Christ

                             
            
Our bodies are temples of the Lord and we must care for our bodies, we must nourish our bodies with goodness and to intentionally harm our bodies in any way is a bad idea. 
To intentionally harm our bodies or scar our bodies is a bad idea, to intentionally starve our bodies or become unhealthily overweight is a bad idea and to intentionally harm our bodies with poisonous drink and drugs is a bad idea.
 Jesus lives in all of us, this we must understand, he is our body, our soul, everything, everything we do to our bodies we do to Christ. Every corrupt thought, we wound Christ with it. Every bad word said, every sinful reaction we poison our saviour with it, therefore we must love our bodies as we love Jesus.

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