“LightGrams” August 13, 2015 Volume 19, Number 30
“Skipping The Gym”
About five years have passed since Gym Commitment # 4. Through the years I’ve realized my need for regular exercise, and on three previous occasions joined a local fitness center and actually went to work out on a semi-regular basis. For various reasons those commitments didn’t last. This time, however, it has. By no means do I look like a fitness fanatic, but my body feels the difference when I get in my workouts.
A recent article (July 23, 2015) on “TheDailyBeast.com” is entitled “What Happens To Your Body When You Skip The Gym?” Aleisha Fetters, the author, stresses that breaks in our routine are sometimes needed. But what about those prolonged periods when we just lose motivation, and “can’t seem to find the time”?
Speaking to those who already have a history of working out, Fetters writes: “If it’s only been a week since you broke a sweat, don’t stress. Whatever your workout history, it’ll take more than seven days for your body to soften. But two weeks? You might not get away with that as easily.”
The lesson seems clear enough: Bypassing physical exercise brings consequences. And it doesn’t take very long for those consequences to develop.
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Paul once wrote about the benefits of physical exercise: “For bodily exercise profits a little …” (1 Timothy 4:8). At first glance, many of us rejoice over that statement. “Paul teaches that there’s not much benefit to exercise!” we might claim. But that’s not really what Paul is teaching.
Read the full context: “For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come” (1 Timothy 4:8). Physical exercise, according to this, is of “little” benefit in comparison to godliness, which is a type of spiritual exercise. But Paul is not demeaning workouts.
What this ought to communicate to each of us is that “working out” in the spiritual dimension is a necessity. Why? Look again: “… having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come” (1 Timothy 4:8). We go to the gym because of the desire for better health. We work out spiritually because we hope for eternal life.
Some, however, take breaks from these spiritual workouts. Is there danger in such periods of inactivity? The analogy of physical exercise would suggest there is. And words like these, in Hebrews 10:36, urge us not to slack off: “For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.”
“… exercise yourself toward godliness” (1 Timothy 4:7). Let’s hit the gym!
