Today I was back in the gym, working out harder than I have in several months. It felt great! If there happens to be a person out there who actually read my last post and is somehow reading this one, too…then you have no life. Just kidding! Actually, I was going to say that you already know I had surgery and just returned to the gym.
Today I was amused by two things: First of all, last week’s beautiful weather turned frigorific yesterday, giving way to snow (for eight hours) today. Strange Texas weather.
I was also amused as I intermittently glanced over to see the football team in the weight room. There they were, working hard, preparing for the upcoming season by stretching and straining every fiber of their beings, utilizing every method known to man.
I was struck by the futility of such endeavors in the grand scheme of life. It doesn’t take long at all for those monster muscles to recede into jelly. But even at the pinnacle of a young athlete’s career, the strength of mankind is really quite insignificant.
I read a quote recently by the great theologian John Calvin, who said, ” “As the surest source of destruction is to obey themselves, so the only haven of safety is to have no other will, no other wisdom, than to follow the Lord wherever He leads. Let this, then, be the first step, to abandon ourselves, and devote the whole energy of our minds to the service of God.”
Physical strength is good, but the only true strength that will last comes from the God of the universe. That’s where you can find real power. If we were wise, we would devote ourselves - body, mind and soul - to the advancement of His agenda….Not our own.
