A couple days ago a good friend of mine in the youth group was talking to me about working out. Although we were talking about exercise, what he said is very much related to our spiritual life.
When a person is on the bench press lifting up the weights, they are exercising. However, one of the things that disappoint him, is that when a person gets tired of lifting they stop. They put the weights back in their spot to take a break. He was telling me that when we are tired, when we feel that we have no more strength, that is when we have to try even harder. We have to break out of our comfort zone to do that extra push, to go that extra mile to become stronger. If the person stops once they are tired, or once they reach the line of their comfort zone, they will never grow, they will maintain themselves in that same spot. They will never reach their full potential.
While my friend was telling me this, I was thinking to myself, that this is the same thing that happens in our spiritual life. When a person does not exercise their faith, they maintain themselves in the same spot. With the same situations, the same problems, the same everything. The person that does not use what God has placed inside of them, never grows. This person remains in their comfort zone. Only hearing about the power of God, only hearing the testimonies of others, but never knowing for themselves.
When a person wants a transformation in their life they have to persevere, they have to fight, but because this requires effort, pain, sacrifice, many people prefer to continue in the life they have even though it hurts. The person continues to suffer because they prefer to stay in this zone and be comfortable than to get out of their comfort zone until they reach their blessing.
A person's life can only progress when a person reaches a point where they say ENOUGH!! When they person says they can no longer live this way. Or their life changes or it changes but they will not accept living in the same way. It all starts with a decision.
How has your spiritual life been? Have you been exercising your faith, or lying down on your comfort zone couch ? If your faith was represented by the weights in the picture of above, how much could you bench?
God Bless.
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