Though
many of us may be out of shape as a result of our indulging lifestyles, we
Americans tend to be fascinated with the latest exercise gadgets and
equipment. Could it perhaps be our
attraction to technology more than anything else? Like me, have you also purchased a piece of
exercise equipment with good intentions to use it regularly, only to have it
join other, previously purchased items over there in a corner or hidden in a closet?
Does just looking at your stash of exercise equipment either bring feelings of
guilt or perhaps a strange sense of ‘being exercised just from glancing’ at an
item?? C'mon now, am I alone here?
(Smile)
Our
bodies are made to move -- be exercised.
Elementary, my dear. But the Bible reveals physical exercise,
while necessary, has little benefit. (Feeling a bit less guilty about your unused
equipment stash?) Godliness, which is considered to be good spiritual exercise,
however, yields more and longer-term (as in eternal) benefits.
Unlike
us, God is less concerned with the latest exercise technology with which we
exercise our bodies, and is more concerned about how we exercise one part of
our bodies that we don't hear much about, but is the part that governs our
entire being and the quality of our lives. I speak of your imagination.
Consider
this: Your imagination is both the workshop and the exit gateway
of your every decision. It is the
workshop of your heart/spirit, where you use your accumulated stash of life tools
and skills to "hammer, chisel, saw, sand, tightly screw down, paint and polish"
every decision you will ever make.
It
is the stash of tools and instruments in this 'workshop', and how we apply them that God is keenly
interested in. He refers to this stash and its products as "the imaginations of our hearts". The problem is that, much like being
under-exercised is to our physical bodies, a heart or spirit that is
under-exercised in Godliness is spiritually, and also physically unhealthy.
A mind and spirit that is under-exercised in Godliness will naturally drift to
being exercised in un-loveliness and wickedness. To counter-weigh this problem,
He provided His best exercise trainer, an
imagination trainer, whose (equivalent) 'technology' is ageless! It is the:
B.I.B.L.E
(Believers'
Imaginations Being Lovingly Exercised)
Here's
an exercise routine/formula that has yielded some fantastic results for me. See if this will work for you, too.
‘God
in a Book’ (His Word, The Bible)
+ a Regenerated imagination
+ Knowledge of world news and trends
= Keen spiritual insight/awareness
X (times/multiply by) 7 -- as in days/week
^ (raise
to the power of) Rejoicing!
Result:
Off the chart real quality of L.I.F.E.
~Life
Indescribably Full Everyday~
Happy exercising~
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* For bodily exercise profits a little, but
godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is
and of that which is to come. (1 Timothy
4:8)
