Being Spiritually Fit

As I struggle to try and be in better shape I had this epiphany. You'll notice when we try to get in shape, we watch primarily two different things: What we eat, and what we do.  Diet, and exercise.  The food you consume and the activity you exert work together on what you physically become.  There are some genetic factors we have little say over, but we'll overlook this for now.

Something else I notice is how it's the getting in a routine that is a huge milestone.  When trying to get out of your slump and into a routine, I have found personally that if I cheat on one or the other I will cheat on both.  If I am watching what I eat and trying to be physically active, failing to do one or the other will demotivate me to do the other.    If I exercise it motivates me to eat better so that I will reap a better reward.  If I eat well it motivates me to exercise and reap a better reward.  Likewise, if I break my diet by eating things I should not during the day, I feel it's all a waste and I may as well just sit among the sloths.

What do you need to do so that you will be spiritually fit?  The simple point is this.  Apply these two things the spiritual.  Watch what you consume, and watch what you do.  The degree to which we are willing to eat the right spiritual food (not eat bad food) and actively do the work of God, is the degree to which we will be spiritually fit.  Spiritual food is both the things you do eat, and the things you do.  Spiritual activity is doing the things that His Word tells us we should.  Do one, and you will often be motivated do the other better.  Read His Word, do His Work.  Now that I've convicted myself, I better watch what I eat and do.


1 Timothy 4:8
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.

James 1:22-24
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.