“Glorify God with your body.” (1 Cor. 6:20b) Paul seems to be speaking to individuals about their physical bodies and not the assembly of believers and the body of Christ. We all agree that one key purpose of the body of Christ is to bring glory to God. We demonstrate that through our corporate acts of compassion, benevolence, and worship. But also through the unity of believers within the body. But how do we glorify God with our individual bodies? How do I honor God with the physical tent which he has entrusted to me? We could put Jesus writing all over the outside, for others to see, and the inside, so we can meditate on them. We could move the tent to places where Jesus is not known or revered and invited others to camp with us. The most important thing we as individual believers can do to glorify God is to obey him in every aspect of our life. In the context this is Paul’s closing statement of the call to live sexually pure lives. We might call this an invasion of privacy. Paul destroys that argument before he makes his charge, “ . . . you are not your own”. Before God we have no privacy, no secrets, no room in which we can hide. When he come to Christ we give him everything.
Stuart
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