Staying Strong
Staying strong while strength training requires consistency!
While working out in the gym the last three days I realized that the unscheduled break we had for just over a month has taken its toll!
Yesterday it was even more revealing just how much I had regressed in my strength training! I was sitting on the bench staring at a pair of 35’s (dumbbells) sitting on the floor at my feet. I was silently lost in thought as I just stared at them in utter disbelief. I was in a state of shock, I guess. You know that feeling you get when something is suddenly revealed to you physically and BAM, it hits you like a ton of bricks.
Tammy snapped me out of my moment of a reality check when she asked, “Are you alright honey?” I looked up at her and she was standing there watching me as I glared at the dumbbells. I nodded to her as I explained that I was already tired. My muscles were letting me know they wanted to quit! She did not seem to understand why I appeared so discouraged about the situation.
I noticed her confusion and explained that I had been using heavier weights just over a month ago but there was no way I could use the heavier weights without hurting myself!
Then she nodded in agreement and explained that she also could tell that she was struggling to accomplish what had become a normal routine for her a month ago.
I got to share a little preview of this blog with my brother in Christ, Pastor Bill Trotter because he also was at the gym. He also had taken an unscheduled break from his routine at the gym and knew exactly what I was talking about.
I told my brother that staying physically strong is a whole lot like growing strong in the Lord. If we take a break from reading the word, it won’t take long, and we soon develop dull ears. With that comes confusion and lack of understanding. The longer we go without consuming the word, the worse it gets until finally we need to relearn everything all over again!
Hebrews 5:11-14 KJV (11) Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. (12) For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. (13) For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. (14) But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Just like strength training and working my way back up to heavier and heavier weights, I must stay in the word of GOD so that I don’t regress to only the milk!
Let’s break bread together today with strong meat and wash it down with the milk! Amen?
Stay strong in the Lord!
Comments
Amen Monty. It is far easier to slack off and lose our tone in the physical and spiritual than we want to admit.
Indeed!
Good words. Amen
Amen brother, amen