If only you knew how much work each of your body parts does, you would be surprised why EACH body part doesn’t have more medals than Usain Bolt and Simone Biles combined.
Here’s a fun fact. Your heart is about the size of two clenched fists. Your heart pumps roughly 2,000 gallons of blood per day. For comparison, an aeroplane is several times bigger (at least 1000, if not 2,000 times bigger) than your heart. An average plane if it were to run for 24hours (it can’t) burns 4,800 gallons of fuel per day. In other words, your heart in 2.5 days will pump as much blood as a plane will use in the whole of 24 hours. God did a lot of work on our bodies. We are wonderfully and fearfully made.
That said, there is an aspect of Christian belief that ties all sorts of sin and evil to the physical body. The eyes are connected to lust, the heart and brain to evil thoughts and desire, the groin is about “dirty sex”, and the feet is about walking to “sinful” locations. If you associate only evil and sin with your physical body, it would be difficult to rest and nourish the body without guilt.
My recommendation is to uncover how your faith and view of sin impacts your treatment of your physical body. To truly rest without guilt, you’ll also need to develop a theology that allows you fully honor and love your physical body while at the same time not contradict your biblical based beliefs about sin, evil, and the “Flesh”.
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