Training In 2009

When I walk by mirrors these days they all shout at me, “Go back to the gym!” If it gets any louder I may have to do that.

A few years ago I disciplined myself to do it regularly; shedding 20 pounds of unwanted weight and increasing the amount I could bench press from a puny 125 pounds to a respectable 205 pounds.

What was the difference between 125 and 205 pounds? In those first couple months, no amount of "trying" could have moved the heavier weight off my chest. In a word, the difference was “training”. By doing what I could do faithfully, it empowered me to go on and do more than I thought I could do.

The same is true spiritually. To get where we want to be spiritually, it will take more than occasionally trying. To be more like Jesus and reach our God designed potential, we need to give ourselves to disciplined spiritual training.

I am going to hit the spiritual weights in 2009. Want to join me?