A retired couple decided that they should walk two miles a day to stay in shape. They chose to walk a mile out on a lonely country road so they would have no choice but to walk back. At the one-mile mark on their first venture, the man asked his wife, "Do you think you can make it back all right, or are you too tired?" "Oh, no," she said. "I'm not tired. I can make it back fine." "Good," he replied. "I'll wait here. You go back, get the car and come get me."
-Joyce Redding in Reader's Digest, February 1980
My wife and I are avid followers of the TV show, Biggest Loser. Not only have we learned a lot about health and fitness, it's just really good TV! The stories are inspiring and they motivate me to keep going. In my endeavors to become fit and healthy, I've become aware of how easy it is to begin focusing more and more on our bodies and less and less on the things of God. I'm reminded of the words of the apostle Paul, "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."
As a Christian, I know what it truly means to be the Biggest Loser: "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for MY sake will find it." -Matthew 16:25
My wife and I covet your prayers as we link arms together and work toward our goal to be fit and healthy, but more importantly, our goal to be better followers of Jesus Christ.
In Jesus,
jb
Philippians 2:14
