Many Christians spend our lives swinging wildly between idolizing our body and despising it. On one end of the spectrum, we can easily make too much of our bodies, fixating on an ideal physique that remains unreachable. On the other end, we make too little of our bodies, convinced they are in the way of our best work. While we swing back and forth, our bodies are always communicating something. They whisper of the passage of time. They grumble for our next meal. They break out in hives over worries we thought we'd forgotten. They are trying to teach us about ourselves. More than that, they are trying to teach us about the One who made us.
In The Life I Live in the Body, award-winning journalist, editor, and author Whitney Pipkin invites you to trade the idea that your body is an award, accident, or impediment for a better and more biblical idea. Namely, she invites you to receive life in a body as an invitation to experience a level of delight and dependence that only an embodied Savior can give you. This book helps you:
- Redirect and redeem your inner dialogue about your body
- Replace false beliefs about the physical body with more holistic, biblical ideas
- Rediscover what it means to be human in an age of machine-like productivity
- And fix your eyes on a God who took on human form to be with you
If the human body was worth nothing, God wouldn't have taken on a human body in the person of Jesus. But he did. And that changes everything about how you love, long, and live in the body he gave you.
