I’ve been working out for almost four years and I still have to talk myself into it daily.
I keep waiting to be one of those people who love it.
The women and men out there who love working out, please know you have some kind of magical, inner beast inside of you and the rest of us hate you. (jk jk)
So as I was working out, I was thinking about how exercising our faith is not something most of us enjoy.
If any of you enjoy sacrifice, obedience and dying to yourself please give the rest of us the remedy.
Exercising our faith and strengthening our wobbly, faith muscles hurts.
- It hurts to say I’m sorry when your pride rears up and everything in you screams not to.
- It hurts to step out and try something God is asking you to do and risk looking like a fool.
- It hurts to forgive someone who has hurt you deeply.
- It hurts to get up earlier and pray when your bed is so nice and cozy.
- It hurts to believe and trust God for something that looks absolutely impossible. (think of Noah, Sarah and Abraham, Moses)
The Apostle Paul knew faith was hard work.
Day and night you’re in our prayers as we call to mind your work of faith, your labor of love, and your patience of hope in following our Master, Jesus Christ, before God our Father. 1 Thessalonians 1:3 (The Message)
I’m realizing the longer I walk with Jesus if I want to grow in faith, I need to use my faith.
If I want to see God work in ways I’ve never seen Him work before, I need to take steps I’ve never taken before.
Faith is a muscle. And just like how our bodies transform with exercise, when we exercise our faith, we see our hearts and lives transformed.
We start to believe a little more.
Trust a little more.
Risk a little more.
And before we know it, we start looking at ourselves in the mirror and see someone new emerging.
2 Corinthians 5:17- Therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation the old has passed away; behold the new has come.
Jesus is the Author and Perfecter of our faith, but we must be willing to believe, trust, reach, go, step, and hope.
So let’s fix our eyes on Him and get to stepping.
Even when it hurts.
When was the last time you exercised your faith? In what ways did it change you? Please share with us by commenting below. 🙂
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