Self-care began as a useful clinical concept: patients managing chronic illness, veterans coping with trauma, caregivers preventing burnout. In its proper sense, it is simply stewardship — caring for the body and mind God has entrusted to you so you can serve others well. Paul himself told Timothy to take a little wine for his stomach (1 Timothy 5:23). But the modern appropriation of "self-care" has become something else entirely. In therapeutic culture, self-care now covers almost any activity a person enjoys and is used to justify almost any decision to withdraw, refuse, or quit. "I need to practice self-care" has become the secular absolution for abandoning hard commitments, avoiding uncomfortable conversations, and indulging appetites. What was once a medical term for stewardship has become a moralized excuse for selfishness. Scripture gives us a very different framework. The Christian is called not to self-care but to self-denial: "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me" (Matthew 16:24). He is called to self-sacrifice: "Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her" (Ephesians 5:25). He is told not to seek his own: "Let no one seek his own, but each one the other's well-being" (1 Corinthians 10:24). This does not mean the Christian never rests — Sabbath is commanded. It does not mean the Christian must burn himself out — even Jesus withdrew to quiet places to pray (Luke 5:16). Real rest, sleep, food, exercise, and silence are good and God-given. But they are received as gifts to equip service, not claimed as rights to excuse selfishness. The question is not whether to care for oneself but under what framework: self-care as stewardship for service is good; self-care as entitlement for comfort is sin dressed up in therapeutic language.