Physical Training

(my birthday is right before the turn of the year so all this hits my mind double)

Physical Training

A new year brings out the best in people.  More accurately, it seems to bring out the best intentions in people! Crowds flock to the local gym or the roads to lift, run, ride and train.  Diet books arrive in smiling Amazon boxes up and down the block.  Running shoes, bike shorts and yoga pants are hard to keep in stock at the local department store.  Yes…people take stock of their health when the calendar turns and many do make a lasting change and become healthier for it. If you are one of these people, I salute you!

“For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.”  1 Timothy 4:8

What about the rest of the person that is you?  The YMCA, for example, is built on the premise that a healthy spirit, mind and body are ALL required for a full life.  Are you working on those other aspects as well?  Why not commit to learning a new skill or tackling that reading list you’ve been working on?  Why not get your life and financial matters in order?  And why not recommit to an intentional pursuit of deeper knowledge of God?  Read your Bible daily, take notes during the sermon on the weekend and listen to it again during the week on podcast or video if you can.  Get in a small group where you can go deeper into the truth of the Gospel message. 

Be just as excited and vigilant about your faith as you are about your fitness…it has “value for all things!”

Thanks for all you do.

Brian

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Volume 7, Number 33