Alive in Our Bodies

Living alive starts in our physical bodies.

Would you say you live alive in yours?

Living alive starts in our physical bodies.

Would you say you live alive in yours?

I’m not sure I do.

I’d like to.

But I struggle liking my body.  Forget loving it. I often hear myself cursing it with some mean comment.

Truth be told, many days I’d rather switch bodies with someone else.

The idea of living alive in it doesn’t really cross my mind.

This is not new for us humans.

Being at odds with our physical body.  Cursing it.  Even to the point of hating it, is not simply a current trend.

It’s something that humanity has done for millennia.

Remember the ancient philosopher Plato? He thought of human beings divided into parts. Where one part is good and valued, and the other is not.

Plato believed our physical bodies are like prisons.  Where we feel trapped.  Captive. Cursed.

This negative way of thinking still ripples in our minds today.  Not just by the way we view and treat our physical bodies, but also outwardly, how we view and treat others.

The thing is, God has a very different perspective.

When He creates man and woman in their physical bodies and the world, He says it is ALL very good! (see Gen 1:31, emphasis added).

He doesn’t divide our being into parts, where some is blessed and some is cursed.

All of who we are is created beautifully by God and blessed by Him.

Do you think today you can live alive in all of who you are —body, mind, soul, and spirit?

And stop feeling imprisoned by your physical body?  Actually hating and cursing it?