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There is some sense in which we’re currently living in unique days. Our cultural conversations about gender and sexuality feel new. But today’s passage from Corinthians assures us that the topic of human sexuality is not.

During the first century when the Bible was being written, Corinth was a place known for rampant sexual immorality, confusion, and deception. It was a culture where anything went; they indulged their bodies however they desired. God spoke into that situation, and His Words—captured in today’s passage from 1 Corinthians—point the way for us through our current cultural debates. Here’s what we learn.

The God Who Formed You Is For You
As we’ve seen, your body has been created, formed, and fashioned by God Himself, in His Image, for His Glory, and for your good on this Earth (Genesis 1:27). God is not against your body. God is not even indifferent toward your body. God is for you—spiritually, physically, emotionally, and relationally.

If you don’t believe this truth, then you will buy into all kinds of lies from the adversary about your body. You will question if God knew what He was doing when He made you with this disability or that desire. You will question if God knew what He was doing when He made you as a male or a female. You will question God’s words about what you should and should not do with your body—whether He knows best.

Know that your body is created by God, for God, and for your good—now and forever.

In This Broken World, We All Have Broken Bodies
Some of us have physical desires for the opposite sex that lead us to think about, desire or do things that are not pleasing to God according to His Word. Some of us have physical desires for the same sex that lead us to think about, desire or do things that are not pleasing to God according to His Word. Some of us have questions about the way God has made us sexually, to the point where we sometimes feel like we don’t fit or belong in our physical bodies. Some of our bodies have significant struggles, such as sexual disability, infertility, abnormalities, cancers, or sicknesses. Some of us have physically been hurt, abused, and/or broken by people who have done things to our bodies that are contrary to God’s Word.

Fundamentally we live in a world that has been broken by sin, and the evidence is scattered all over our lives. It’s broken hearts . . . broken homes . . . broken relationships . . . broken bodies. So is there any hope for broken bodies in a broken world? Absolutely.

Jesus Gave His Body To Make Your Body New
God Himself, in the Person of His Son, came in the flesh, with a body, into this broken world to die on a Cross and rise from the grave so that you and I could be forgiven of all the sins we commit in our bodies. And He gives the same invitation to every single one of us. Jesus says, I am the fulfillment of all your desires. I am the one you need to flourish. Come to me and you won’t be hungry. Believe in me, trust in me, and you shall never, ever thirst.

Jesus beckons all of us—single or married, male or female, whoever we are with, whatever desires we have—to turn from ourselves and find a New Identity in Him (Galatians 2:20), an Identity that’s no longer defined by the sexual desires in our bodies but instead by the Savior who died for our bodies.