How would you like to be able to design your own body? Do you like your eyes, nose, mouth, height, width? Are you comfortable with your intellectual and physical abilities? I doubt it. We are living in a society that glorifies beauty and glamour. The media and its advertisers feature beauty to sell everything from hair spray to gym equipment. Young people are bombarded with beauty propaganda to promote purchases that support a multi-million dollar economy. If you are too fat or too thin; if your nose is too long or your forehead too wrinkled, there is a solution on the market. Diets, transplants, liposuction, face-lifts, and even botox injections are cures employed today to attain beauty. Many are driven to life-threatening actions such as anorexia, bulimia, and even suicide to achieve their goal.
Let's face it, most of us are ugly. I recently read in the newspaper of a man who is fed up with what he feels is discrimination against ugliness, which he likens to racism. He is attempting to organize a nation-wide campaign to demand that more ugly people be seen on TV and in the movies. Although the human race today is predominantly ugly, it has not always been so. When Adam and Eve came forth from the Creator's hand, they were perfect in every respect; they were of noble stature and perfect form, with intelligence much greater than man today; they were made in the image of God. But that image has been marred by 6000 years of sin's degradation and the indulgence of base passions and appetites, so that man today is but a shadow of his former glory. But, the image of God that separates man from the other animals still exists, if even in an enfeebled form.
God's reincarnation and His work of sanctification and redemption were planned long before "the foundation of the world" (I Peter 1:20). Apparently, man was created with a body which Christ planned to occupy when He became a man. Evidently, then, man's body was designed specifically to be the receptacle of the Son of God. Ergo, in a sense we have "designer bodies."
