Christ's Victory over Our Body

There is not much in this world that looks, acts, and talks in the same manner that humans do. When we think about animals in the animal kingdom, humans are often left out. Whereas many animals walk on four legs, we walk on two. Whereas many animals were gifted with sharp teeth, wings, or fins, we were given a brilliant mind.

Even monkeys, who most closely resemble humans, are somehow very different from us. Or perhaps another way to consider this is that we are different from animals. We are not on the same level as all the rest of creation. Why is that? Because we were designed to take after God.

God gave us bodies for a purpose. He could have given us just spirits, and then we would exist in some ethereal reality. However, God saw fit to give us a body that was tangible, and He declared that good. Gregg Allison says, "Human beings are called to salvation through Christ, and they are not just 'souls to be saved;' the human body is included in this divine work. Thankfully, 'the Lord is for the body' (1 Cor. 6:13) in that His completed work of salvation will include the bodily resurrection."

This should prompt us to declare victory over our body, just as we would declare victory over the world. Whether spiritual, mental, emotional, or physical, there is no area or sphere of our life that we should ever be afraid to declare victory in. As we have been called to be good stewards of our faith, money and time, we have also been called to be good stewards of our bodies.

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