Keeping Fit

Verse For The Day

“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” (1 Thessalonians 5:11)

Short Devotional Thought
Our Daily Devotional:

Keeping Fit

Romans 12:1 NIV: Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God´s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.

I have the best of intentions to stay physically fit. I sometimes set up schedules with real and reachable goals. I have a weight bench, a treadmill, and a membership to a fitness club. But for some reason, that by itself isn´t enough. I actually have to follow through with my plans and use the resources I have available. And if I don´t, it´s easy to see the results each time I step on the scale or look in the mirror. There may be a lot of drawbacks from not being physically fit, but I can think of nothing as bad as the difficulties I face when I am not spiritually fit. Just like with my body, when I don´t do what is needed for my spirit—it shows—and sometimes it´s not pretty. I cannot overemphasize our need to stay spiritually fit. We must maintain good spiritual condition for the sake of our relationships, our personal walk with God, and our effectiveness as ministers and witnesses.