When we are turned from God, our bodies become the place where sin is lived out. The path of self-worship goes directly through what we look like and how we physically feel. We can see this obsession everywhere.

No one is really interested in how the stars are thinking lately. Yet, you page through any celebrity magazine and you will see the “best beach bodies in Hollywood,” “the worst fashion mistakes at the Oscars,” and so on. We get “Star” magazine at home for research purposes only and I am always amazed at how much what stars look like becomes the conversation for everything. Thin is still in, and yes, Matthew McConaughey does have an excellent six pack.

Then there is how I feel. According to advertisers, I am invited to try any product with the understanding that I am going to be sexually satisfied as a result. Other than a touchy feely family love theme, every product out there is marketed on sex. God-given creativity and imagination seems to be stuck in the public arena on how many different ways I can say that sex is god.

Pornography, alcohol, and drug abuse all are pure body ruin. We are bombarded with the message of feel good or don’t feel at all. Without a good spam blocker, the two “V’s”, Viagra and Vicodin seem to be the solution to all my problems. Giving in to the search for pleasure is a direct result of heart and mind ruin.

Social ruin follows because I don’t need you unless it means I can use you for pleasure. Even anger is not exempt from body ruin. Anger is lived out physically, as well. This is another warped way of the body. Getting a “rush” over rage.

So if heart, mind, body and social relations are all on the path to ruin, what happens to me?

When is the last time you looked in a full length mirror? What did you see?

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