“Stay clear of silly stories that get dressed up as religion. Exercise daily in God—no spiritual flabbiness, please!” (1 Timothy 4:7, The Message)
We are all subject to spiritual flabbiness; to getting comfortable where we are in the faith; to putting our spiritual lives in cruise control. Indeed, this seems to be the human condition, fighting with ourselves over spiritual disciplines. I wish it were easier. It's not.
We have to exercise daily in God to prevent spiritual flabbiness. We must tend to the daily building blocks of our spiritual lives as we do our physical lives. This means fundamentally reading the Scriptures and prayer. It means other things as well, but those two things are the starting point.
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