A Heart Untroubled

I know I've mentioned running a few times recently, but it's a great analogy for spiritual truths.  God speaks to me a great deal through my running and it's good! Recently I was listening to a series of podcasts about how to improve your running.  It was very helpful to me. One of the points was to recognise where you are and start from there.   What does that really look like?  Well, for example, through this 5 day challenge, I realised that my strength is rubbish!  (I tried a strength test and basically I have none🤣🤣🤣) Seriously though, I could recognise that and decide today to join a gym, go 7 days a week and bench press 200lbs a day!  But that's not realistic.  I need to start smart!  So, I might join a gym, but maybe aim for twice a week and start with 2lb weights!    I might decide I need to run further, but to try and do a marathon tomorrow is dumb to the max! The same is true with spiritual things.  Sometimes we recognise that we need to spend more time in

Nothing in life has any meaning until you give it meaning .  What does that mean?   Well, if someone says to me 'You should run a marathon; think of what an achievement that would be'. It doesn't mean a thing to me. I have no desire to do that.   However,  when I look at my fitness watch after a 5K (3.10 mile) run, if it says more than 36 minutes, I feel disappointed. Why is that?  Well I give meaning to the time it takes me to run 5k! I want to improve, I want to go a bit faster. I will train harder to meet that goal.  It takes on significance for me. The same is true with spiritual things. If I give meaning to something, it has meaning (sounds simple, right?).  We had a friend who used to say "Until you're sick and tired of being sick and tired, you'll stay that way!".  What he means is, unless you give meaning (importance, significance, value etc) to healing in your life, you will settle for sickness that you can live with.  If you don't give mean

I've recently discovered a song by Cody Johnson called "Until You Can't".  It's a song about putting stuff off and then not being able to do it because it's too late. Life is short and our days are not guaranteed, I get it. I've been thinking a lot about that sentiment in my own life The song says " Don't wait on tomorrow 'cause tomorrow may not show.   Say your sorries, your I-love-yous, 'cause man you never know " and they are all great sentiments, but there's so much more we shouldn't put off.    We shouldn't put off accepting Christ.  Today is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2), we shouldn't put off encouraging each other (Heb 3:13) and we shouldn't put off planting seeds if we want a harvest. It's easy to become weary in this day and age (I'd even go as far as to say that one of the symptoms of modern society is marked apathy) and we can convince ourselves that doing nothing is ok, procrastinatio