[Newsletter] Daily Devotional

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     Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:52:48 -0500
     From: littlejane at rgcministries.com
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Godly Exercise


Read: 1 Timothy 4:6-16


Exercise yourself toward godliness. ~ 1 Timothy 4:7


Fitness advocate Jhannie Tolbert says you don?t need a treadmill or
specialized equipment to get a great physical workout at home. Tolbert
uses a toolbox for stepping exercises, lifts soup cans to work his
shoulder muscles, and employs other common household items in his
daily training. He says you can stay fit at home using a low-tech
approach. Other trainers agree and encourage people to use jump ropes,
chairs, brooms, and even bags of groceries in conditioning routines.
They see exercise as a matter of will, not wealth.

The same principle holds true with spiritual fitness. While Bible
dictionaries, commentaries, and other books are helpful, we can begin
spiritual training with nothing more than the Bible and the guidance
of the Holy Spirit. Paul urged his protégé Timothy: ?Exercise yourself
toward godliness. 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? (1 Timothy 4:7-8).

It requires no money to take the spiritual truths that we know and put
them into practice. We don?t need special equipment or materials to
pray for a friend, give thanks to God, or sing His praise. We just
need to begin where we are, with what we have, right now.

~ Dave McCasland

Just as the body will grow strong
With exercise each day,
So too, we grow more like our Lord
By living life His way.

~ D. De Haan


Thought For The Day:
Godly exercise is the key to godly character.





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