Going to the Gym Going to the Gym


By William B. Everett T


    -     


 


                          -                  


Thus, when Paul admonishes


                        -       


8 


     


How then are we to ‘exercise ourselves unto godli- ness’? What spiritual gymnastics are we to undertake? Paul does not go into detail. But the context, and in particular the parallel between nourishment and exercise, together suggest that we are to exercise ourselves in the same way that we nourish ourselves, namely in the Word of God. Certainly it has been a long-standing Chris- tian tradition, belonging to the wisdom of the ages, that disciplined meditation in Scripture is indispensable to Christian health, and indeed to growth in godliness. For in contrast to ‘godless myths’, Scripture is the most godly book that has ever been written. It is a book by God about God. It might even be termed the autobi- ography of God, since in it he talks to us about Himself. Consequently, we cannot become familiar with this godly book without becoming godly ourselves. Nothing evokes the worship of God like the Word of God.


              


    


Rev. Bill Everett is a retired ARP minister in Mississippi Valley Presbytery. The Associate Reformed Presbyterian


Devotion


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