Self-limitations
Worship
Old Wine In New Skins
Calls To Worship And Other Worship Resources
"It's my life!" "This is my body!" We're very possessive of
ourselves. We belong to no one else. Period! But it's not quite
so simple as that. We didn't create ourselves so we have some
obligation there. The Bible tells us that, in loving bonds, the
husband's body belongs to his wife, and the wife's body belongs
to her husband. (1 Corinthians 7:3ff) And again we read that our
bodies are God's temples, (1 Corinthians 3:16) which implies a
responsibility to a being outside ourselves. "You mean I don't
have a life of my own?" No, that's not it. But it's too
simplistic to claim that our bodies and lives are totally without
involuntary interconnections. To claim that is not to grant us
our humanity, but rather, to rob us of human qualities, which
included self-limitation in order that other lives might be
enhanced, along with our own.
ourselves. We belong to no one else. Period! But it's not quite
so simple as that. We didn't create ourselves so we have some
obligation there. The Bible tells us that, in loving bonds, the
husband's body belongs to his wife, and the wife's body belongs
to her husband. (1 Corinthians 7:3ff) And again we read that our
bodies are God's temples, (1 Corinthians 3:16) which implies a
responsibility to a being outside ourselves. "You mean I don't
have a life of my own?" No, that's not it. But it's too
simplistic to claim that our bodies and lives are totally without
involuntary interconnections. To claim that is not to grant us
our humanity, but rather, to rob us of human qualities, which
included self-limitation in order that other lives might be
enhanced, along with our own.
