Daily Devotions
Training for Godliness
Title: Training for Godliness
Reading for September 10: Ezekiel 47-48
Weekly reading for September 9-15: 1 Timothy 1-6
Rather train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
1 Timothy 4:8
Our bodies are made in such a way that it is easier to consume calories than to burn them. For example, if you run a mile in ten minutes you burn roughly 160 calories, which is about the same amount of calories in a 10 oz can of coke!
Pretty depressing, right? Just wait, it gets worse...
A Big Mac has 485 calories. You would have to run a ten minute mile for three miles to burn that off. A large fry at McDonald's is 500 calories which would equal another 30 minutes of running. So burning off a value meal at McDonald's (which includes a 32 oz coke) would require running a ten minute mile for at least nine miles for well over an hour and a half!
As depressing as that is, there is an even more depressing spiritual law we have to deal with. Just as it is easier to consume calories than to burn them, it is easier to consume wickedness than it is to exercise godliness.
And just like exercising one day out of the week won't cancel out a daily diet of McDonald's, going to church one day a week doesn't cancel out a daily diet of ungodliness.
What's the solution? While we may try to limit the evil that exists in the world (and we must try to do that), we can't completely eliminate it as long as we are living in this world. The answer then is exercise, which begs the question...
Have you read your Bible today? Have you prayed? Sung praises to God?
Lord, as we open your Word, pray, and worship you today, help us to eliminate all the wickedness in our heart and replace it with your Son.
