The bible and history show us over and over that financial and professional prosperity erodes and weakens our spiritual vitality. God usually has to take away our stuff for repentance and revival to happen. He has to take away our idols.

I’ve come to realize that we cannot separate our bodies from our spirit. If we were meant to separate these two things, then why did God create these unique “machines” with emotions? With hormones? With desires? With an amazing ability to experience beauty and pleasure? Our bodies are not just cages for our souls.

The Western church seems to have forgotten this part. In our quest for bigger, better, more spectacular experiences, we have elevated the parts of the body that feed us and have forgotten we also have a role.