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Today, before you train, spend at least 15 minutes in prayer thanking God for another opportunity to glorify Him through the avenue of exercise.
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“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” (1 Corinthians 10:31)
Why Do You Train? - Sam Fitzgerald
Read the following excerpt from Og Mandino’s “The Greatest Miracle in the World” - then, list YOUR excuses for not fulfilling your full potential in life.
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“Consider a painting by Rembrandt or a bronze by Degas or a violin by Stradivarius or a play by Shakespeare. They have great value for two reasons: their creators were masters and they are few in number. Yet there are more than one of each of these. On that reasoning you are th most valuable treasure on the face of the earth, for you know who created you and there is only one of you.” (p. 97)
Find a good way to tell someone their life is NOT an accident. Especially, look for someone who seems like they really need to hear those words.
“Father, we celebrate the fact that you made us. We are no accidents, and we thank You for that.” Joe Gibbs - Invocation at NASCAR All-Star Race (May 21, 2011)
Add to your knowledge…
Commit the following passage to memory: “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. ” (Psalm 139:13-16)
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“I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24)
Name one aspect of your spiritual or physical life that has been difficult for you to believe.
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Famous Atheist Now Believes in God
Print the following passage or write it down on a notecard. Read the paragraph 3 times today - before lunch, before dinner, and before bed…or whenever possible.
“I am nature’s greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my mind, my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me. All men are my brothers yet I am different from each. I am a unique creature…No beast, no plant, no wind, no rain, no rock, no lake had the same beginning as I, for I was conceived in love and brought forth with a purpose…I am nature’s greatest miracle.” (The Greatest Salesman in the World, Og Mandino)
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Review our discussion on faith evidences. Then, consider the following:
What would your life be - without God?
“When Christianity is scrapped, man becomes one minor gear in a mechanical universe; he contributes his little part just as do mud, hair, and filth. Each is a gear, and each in its own way makes for the smoother movement of the whole. But it is not at all clear that humanity is worthy of any more honor than the other gears in the machine. Why should man be more laudable than, for example, the elephant? Both are doomed to die without hope in a universe which is under the decrees of the second law of thermodynamics, and the animal is bigger than the human. Without God to tell us otherwise, humanity appears to be a huddling mass of groveling protoplasm, crowded together in a nervous wait for death, not unlike a group of helpless children that aggregate together in a burning building, pledging to love each other till the end comes. But, since we are all going to die, and since “the wages of virtue is dust,” as Sidgwick expresses it, what possible incentive for heroic personal living can humanism proffer? Shall I give up my own desires to follow some abstractly conceived theory of justice, prudence, and benevolence, when, as a result of my lifetime sacrifice, all I receive is dash of dirt? Inasmuch as I can be assured of my happiness here and now if I do my own, rather than the will of the whole, what reason is there for me not to follow my own desires? After all, it is just one gear against another, and may the best gear win.” (Carnell, An Introduction to Christian Apologetics, pp. 327-328)
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It may be Friday the 13th - but we believe there are no “unlucky” days in God’s presence…only purpose-filled days!
Print the following passage or write it down on a notecard. Read the paragraph 3 times today - before lunch, before dinner, and before bed…or whenever possible.
“I am nature’s greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my mind, my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me. All men are my brothers yet I am different from each. I am a unique creature…No beast, no plant, no wind, no rain, no rock, no lake had the same beginning as I, for I was conceived in love and brought forth with a purpose…I am nature’s greatest miracle.” (The Greatest Salesman in the World, Og Mandino)
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