Time to Move

     We have looked at the importance of consuming the right foods in right portions. However, there is something else that is just as important and it must work together with correct eating. We have to get up and do something. We must add exercise to our day. When a group of people who had all lost 60 pounds and had kept it off for six years were asked how they kept it off, it was determined that you only have a 10% chance of keeping your weight off without exercise. Also, among health experts there has been a debate going on between being fit and being at the correct weight. They have gone back and forth as to which one is most important. They are both important but right now it is looking like being fit is inching its way to the forefront. If you absolutely had to choose between the two, it is better to be fit and a few pounds overweight than at the correct weight and not be fit. In the end, it is better to consider them twins; they go together and give the ultimate results when they are both practiced. A few things to remember is that you need to work out doing cardio and weight bearing exercises. You need to do 30 minutes, five times a week at a minimum. Ultimate health is achieved through 1 hour of medium intensity workouts every day. Find the exercise that you love. Change up your exercise to keep from getting bored. Lastly, always challenge yourself to do more than you think you can!
     Just as it takes healthy eating and exercise to achieve ultimate health, it takes faith and works to achieve ultimate spiritual health. To do only one is not God's intent and cheats you out of the God's best blessings. We must exercise our faith as well as work for the Lord. Everyone needs to do something. No one gets to be a couch potato.
Are you doing both in your life? What work are you doing for the Lord? Seek to find your calling, the service that you love! Exercising your faith is not easy, it will be a challenge, but that is how you grow! Don’t be content with your spiritual fitness level, increase it another step. Don’t ever let yourself be content with what you consume, like going to church, you have to go to work too!!!

Isn’t it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense? I can already hear one of you agreeing by saying “Sounds good. You take care of the faith department; I’ll handle the works department.” Not so fast. You can no more show me your works apart from your faith than I can show you my faith apart from my works, works and faith fit together hand in glove.

James 2 17-18