IS GOD MAKING YOUR DAY? Reflections on living with purpose #1 - Exercise!

Our beachside motel overlooks a stretch of the Pacific Ocean.  Across the street, a palm-lined walkway running north-south, with stairs down to the sandy beach.

Residents and tourists can run on cement or sand.  "Run" is an elastic word.

Some run.  Some walk upright (with a measure of determination), or deliberately plod a bit bent over.    Still others leisurely stroll.

There go two on skateboards!  A dad, mentoring his son.   Down the oceanside path.

Some have dogs pulling at the leash, which means they half-run, half-walk.

Others jog.  Some stretch.  Others do pushups on the grassy areas.  Deep knee bends next to the white  railing fence.

Still others wave their arms in loops.  Some stretch their sides, first one, then the other.

Some on bikes peddling fast, or peddling slow.

My point - just about everyone is doing something, and doing something different.    But they are all out, in one form or another, exercising.  Doing something to stay in shape.  Not merely sitting.

So what are you doing to strengthen your walk (or run) with God today.

IT IS SO EASY...

• to do nothing
• to skip one day, then the next, and then yet again, another
• to let days go by when God is not on your calendar and you rarely speak meaningfully with Him, or give Him the time to speak meaningfully to you

AND THE ENEMY OF OUR SOULS WINS.

"Job would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of his children...thus Job did continually."  Job 1:5

Take some time to be with God today.  Exercise, spiritually.  Offer the sacrifices of prayer for your heart, your spouse's, for your kids and grandkids.  For your friends.  You don't have to exercise the way another does.  It's the exercise...the time with God and He with you...that's important.