Sunday, February 27, 2011

Temporary or Last Forever

Many people are struggling with eating less and exercising more in an attempt to keep a New Year's resolution. With the guilt arising from Christmas meals and year-end company dinners, some are committing to indulging the stomach less.

I am not discounting the value of exercise and a healthy diet. But when it comes to our physical bodies, all that sacrifice and discipline brings is, at best, only a temporary gain.

The irony is painful. People are willing to spend large amounts of time working to strengthen that which cannot last, and yet hardly give a moment's attention to that which last forever.

Many Christians have fallen into that same unfortunate mindset. The result is that while believers are perhaps healthier than ever physically, they are bothering on death and dying in their spiritual condition. They do not know the Word of God and have not attempted to study and obey it.

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