Biceps, Buns, & Acne

I was thinking today about the different things we do to make our bodies look and feel good. We put hours of cardio training in to take off the pounds and get in shape. We lift weights and take classes aimed at toning and shaping....building up and shaving off around the edges. We even go to the grocery store and buy product after product promising to make us have smooth skin. These things are all good to a degree but it occurred to me that while I will spend hours investing in my physical body, my mindset is almost a 180 when it comes to my spiritual body.

What if knowledge of the word made you more fit? What if for every verse you memorized your biceps would grow? What if for every chapter of the word studied and meditated upon, your buns became more tone? What if clear knowledge of the Word (led by the Holy Spirit) resulted in clear skin? We know we would all be diving in.

Yet, if you are like me, you do not consider that the Word is more than this. It fixes you inside. It cleans you out. It makes your inside pretty. And WAY more than that it introduces you to the Lover of your soul; our glorious God. It is the food which if we do not eat of, we will DIE!!! Our outsides may be pretty, tone, clear, shapely but our insides will be haggard and utterly disgusting without the Word LIVING inside of us.

This verse comes to mind: "For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come."

Keep the outside of the temple ready for battle and in physical shape but do not neglect the inside or you may have a cave in.