Training the body helps a little, but Godly living helps in every way. Godly living has the promise of life now and in the world to come. 1 Timothy 4:8
Fitness.
I HATE to workout!!! I said it. I said HATE.
A few years ago I lost 60 pounds. At one point I was doing a 5K a day, 5 days a week for 5 weeks. I HATED it, but it worked. In the years since I gained back 30 of those pounds.
You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? Galatians 5:7
Well, since our church started an organized fast on 1/3/18 I have lost 13 pounds, but it is time to get moving and get back to where I need to be. I did a 5K on the treadmill today, 4 more days to go this week to keep up the streak.
I have focused on the “Godly living” portion of 1Timothy 4:8, but glossed over the “Training the body” part. I did so knowing that for our own good God tells us to care for our bodies and to watch what we eat and drink.
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31
If we choose to purposely neglect any one area of our life, be it faith, finance, friends, family, food or fitness, it will have an effect on the others. Disease in any part of the body will quickly spread to the whole.
Today my fitness quest began again.
Yours can too, we don’t have to go it alone!
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Hebrews 12:1
So who is with me?
Billy