Boot Camp for Your Body and Soul

We have about 40 people in our church that are going through an 8 week boot camp. One of our church members is a young in shape health and fitness specialist. No, it's not me! I can see why you would have drawn such a conclusion but I am only 1 of the 40 participants. That's right! On purpose I am committing to 8 weeks of fitness.

I have been running a 5k three times a week for about 5 years now. I had considered myself a person who was physically fit. Boot camp this week busted my physically fit bubble and I'll tell you why.

Boot camp is exposing some muscles that I didn't even know I had. I am sore in places that I had forgot were even on my body. I had not been training these muscles and boot camp is reminding me how useless these muscles had become. Yeah I was running and doing a moderate work out occasionally but I was not training my muscles. That's why my calves hurt this morning. That's why my lower triceps muscle (I didn't know there was a lower triceps muscle) on both arms hurt when I type. My abs, though not a six pack, hurt when I roll over in bed.

Enough already. We need a boot camp for our spiritual life. There are some areas in your life that are not in shape spiritually because you have not been using them. Some areas of our life have grown useless because we aren't using them anymore. A spiritual boot camp is like a physical boot camp; you must commit on purpose to train and use some spiritual muscle groups that had grown dormant.

I challenge you to health and fitness, but I challenge you even more to spiritual health and fitness. Paul said, "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." Some wrongly assume that exercise is not important according to Paul. He is saying that physical exercise is important but not nearly as important as spiritual exercise.

Blessings,
Pastor Shannon