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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Getting In Shape With God; A Spiritual Work-Out

Getting In Shape With God; A Spiritual Work-Out

Curry, Pastor Joseph M.

Paperback

Religion General

ISBN10: 1537332589
ISBN13: 9781537332581
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 1 2016
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
I remember the year I joined a workout facility in an effort to shed some unwanted pounds. When I arrived for the first time, I stood in the doorway of a workout room, looking at all these slim and trim, toned and tuned hard bodies. My greatest fear was that they would all look up at me simultaneously and fall to the floor, laughing hysterically. After enduring the humiliation of walking to the locker room and getting into my work out gear (I wish I had arrived already dressed), I noticed two things. The room was full of all sorts of weight machines designed to strengthen different muscle groups throughout the body. Second, I couldn't help but notice the mirrors. They were everywhere. I felt like I was in some sort of narcissistic cathedral. People throughout the room stared at their bodies, but I ignored the mirrors-I already knew what I looked like. As I began to move from station to station, using muscles that must have wondered what prompted their agonizing, abrupt promotion from hibernation, a Scripture began to pound in my ears: ... discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness; for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come (1 Timothy 4:7-8; NASB). The word profitable is used in this passage to contrast gain in two worlds-the physical and the spiritual. The perishable and imperishable. As I began to perspire I thought about my own perishing muscles and the truth of that Scripture.

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