Good evening all.
I wanted to share an important lesson that I learnt this week. I'm a committed bodybuilder who loves going to the gym and hammering my body to its limits. In the past few weeks I sustained a neck injury and simply necked painkillers before my next session. This lead me to no good results.
Once I had rested up for a week I got back into the gym and found that I was stronger than I had previously been, even though I had been at rest. My body had time to recover and so my muscles had rebuilt themselves to an even stronger point.
Isnt this the same with our spiritual lives?
Sometimes when we push forward for long periods of time it does wear us out. We could spend all of our waking hours at Church or doing some type of event. Yet once we rest, spiritually, we come back even stronger - even readier to take on Satan and all other obstacles we face in our spiritual lives. Look at how Jesus rested up after preaching and praying.
In the same way lets recall the story of Mary and Martha.
Luke 10:38-42
38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!" 41 "Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."
God Bless, metal.
I wanted to share an important lesson that I learnt this week. I'm a committed bodybuilder who loves going to the gym and hammering my body to its limits. In the past few weeks I sustained a neck injury and simply necked painkillers before my next session. This lead me to no good results.
Once I had rested up for a week I got back into the gym and found that I was stronger than I had previously been, even though I had been at rest. My body had time to recover and so my muscles had rebuilt themselves to an even stronger point.
Isnt this the same with our spiritual lives?
Sometimes when we push forward for long periods of time it does wear us out. We could spend all of our waking hours at Church or doing some type of event. Yet once we rest, spiritually, we come back even stronger - even readier to take on Satan and all other obstacles we face in our spiritual lives. Look at how Jesus rested up after preaching and praying.
In the same way lets recall the story of Mary and Martha.
Luke 10:38-42
38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!" 41 "Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."
God Bless, metal.
. It has gotten to a stage that whenever I'm at church I seem to be doing something and as a result I avoid attending church when I'm not rostered on just so people don't have the chance to ask me to do something. I would love to have the chance to go to church - even if it's one Sunday a month - just to sit and worship and not worry about having to help in the service in any way. Basically what I'm saying is I do so much at church I feel spiritually tired. What I need is the chance to just sit and be spiritually fed.
