As everyone knows I’m a personal trainer and fitness is a massive part of my life so I compare a pretty good bit of my life to fitness. I want to talk about stretching because its been happening a lot here lately, like a lot a lot. So lets just be honest here people, stretching most of the time just sucks and it isn’t exactly my idea of fun. As a trainer I know we have to do it in order to be better and improve in literally every single thing we do in and out of the gym. To become faster, stronger, and more agile we need to stretch and that’s the bottom line no matter how much we dislike it. Jesus wants us to stretch just like in the gym and that can suck too, it’s very uncomfortable at most times. At training camp my team and I stretched about 90% of the time if not more and I have a pretty strong feeling that we will all be doing it on the race as well, if we do just like we’re suppose to we’ll come out of the race way stronger than ever before. There’s been times where I had to become vulnerable in front of my team, cry in front of my team and the same for them. Some of them are use to opening up and being vulnerable in front of people but for anyone who doesn’t know me it’s extremely hard for me. I’ve never been the type to just open up, I’ve always been the type to ask others to open up to me and not even worry about myself. There’s been times where God has asked me and others in my life to do harder things such as leave home for 11 months, or fast from certain things that you never want to let go of or from.
Fasting, vulnerability, stretching and showing our weaknesses are all things that God asks of us to do in order to grow our trust and faith in him. Second Corinthians 12:9-10 states “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” God will make us strong through our weaknesses and that’s without a doubt in my heart and my head. But he can only make us strong if we’re willing to show our weaknesses, our vulnerabilities, and through stretching. If we stretch our legs our legs will become stronger in the gym and we’ll be able to lift heavier weight, if we stretch our faith our faith will become stronger as well and we’ll be able to trust God more and more in our life. Listen to God, as hard as it is sometimes, is he asking you to stretch? Is he asking you to become vulnerable and show certain weaknesses? Don’t be so afraid to do so, your weakness just might become your strength if you are obedient to Him.
