Physically & Spiritually Fit!

Ok, so it has been a little over 3 weeks since I have posted......Aaaaahhhhh! I have been super-busy this summer & have had great things that I wanted to blog about, but actually sitting down and making that happen was totally different, ha! However, things have calmed in my little life and in the Williams home and so here is another post!

PHYSICAL & SPIRITUAL FITNESS::

 As a lot of you may already know, I have deep love for our Creator and a passion for fitness. And so many times, I have found it hard to talk about one without speaking about the other. To me, physical & spiritual fitness goes hand in hand.  In 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 it tells us, "Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies."

Because we do only have one body we should take very good care of it. We are commanded to HONOR our bodies. Let's take a look at how we can do that in both ways:

Physically self care- It is you taking care of the physical body that God gave to you. Only you (unless you are an invalid) can take proper care of your own body. No one else can do it for you.

God provided us with the most sophisticated organism on the planet to house His Holy Spirit and to do His work, yet many Christians choose to ignore how they care for it.  Many will argue that God doesn’t care about our physical appearance.  He cares about our heart, our character.  But the reality is that our overall physical health is much more than how we look and can in many ways affect our heart, the type of person we are or the type of person God wants us to be.  Our health can have a direct effect on our mood, our energy level and our ability to serve.  In many ways it can have a negative effect on the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.  This in turn can affect our relationship with God; therefore, our health can have an impact on our eternity.  The bottom line is this…God cares about our health! Everything we have, including our bodies, is on loan from God.  He entrusts us with “things” and the more we take care of the small things, the more He can trust us with important things.  The better we take care of ourselves physically, the more we are honoring this gift from God and the more energy we’ll have to worship and serve Him at a higher level!

I was convicted of my physical fitness a little over 2 years ago, and knew that something had to be done......EVERYDAY I am reminded about my spiritual fitness. Just like we have to feed our flesh with good and healthy foods we too, should do the same with the Word of God for a spiritual well being.


I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship. Romans 12:1 (NIV)