Why?
Can I ask you, why do you workout?
For the longest time it has been a struggle for me, continuing to workout after I have started. So I ask myself, why do I workout? Up until month 6 of the Race I wasn’t really working out because, for me, my mind wasn’t right. I did it out of vanity, more muscle—less fat, flat stomach, less “jiggle”… Vanity. I wanted so badly to feel good about the way I looked on the outside. So I quit, my mind needed to be re-trained, re-exercised, and now it has been.
I have been given this body by God to take care of as a living temple for His Holy Spirit to dwell. So He said to me, “Take care of what I have given you, all of it.” For too long that only meant material gifts and blessings. But this body is a gift too, I am meant to take care of it. Working out now means health and not for me so much but health as proof of the love I reciprocate, as much as I can, for the Holy Spirit. I do it for Him. For not only physical health but mental and spiritual health as well.
The spiritual being, having the knowledge that I am a temple of the Living God, a dwelling place. Think about all the effort that King Solomon put into Gods dwelling, the pure gold and the glory of it, every bit in place and now I AM THAT… (think about it, you are that!) The mental being, I need to honor the Holy Spirit dwelling in me and take care of what I have been given, knowing this helps me keep going, giving me mental strength. So, I had to start with the spiritual and that strengthened the mental until I was ready to, literally, hit the ground running.
So now it all has a whole new meaning…
I WORKOUT.
