Imagination’s Trainer/Exerciser

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)