Love for self. A tough one for most of us, is it not? Self-care is NOT selfish.

1Cr 6:19 Or don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,

20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

The first fact to keep in mind is that you don’t own your body. You don’t even own yourself. You are owned by God (1 Corinthians 6:20). You have a certain obligation to God to take good care of the body that God has entrusted to you. Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. Your body is ultimately a creation of God. As a work of art created by God it deserves very sensitive and intelligent care.

The second fact to keep in mind is that God calls you to use your body as an instrument of righteousness. That is, you are to use your body for God’s purposes. If you diminish your strength by poor health habits, you are less available to do God’s work.

Health is not the most important consideration for a Christian, but it is connected with the very most important considerations: our respect for God as the Creator and our responsibility to serve others with all our strength.

So eat right, exercise, get some sleep, drink a lot of water, and stay away from food, drugs and chemicals that damage the delicate mechanisms in God’s creative masterpiece: your body.

We are to do the best we can towards moderation and self-control.

"I am come that you might have life, and that you might have it more abundantly". (John 10:10) Some things that we can do to have an abundant life are:

A goal or purpose for living,
An optimistic outlook on life,
Good diet and health care,
Forgive those who have wronged you,
Don't dwell on the negatives you encounter in your life,
Don't let the sun go down on your anger.