Mine and Josh’s new year’s resolutions got off to a slow start.  Mine was a legitimate resolution and Josh’s was somewhat forced.  We are on journey to lose weight.  My goal is to get to 175 pounds and Josh is to get to 180.  So we decided to start a little exercise program with an incentive at the end if Josh loses his weight.

The problem I have with exercise is not the exercise itself. It is being contained on a treadmill.  For some reason I don’t feel like I am going anywhere.  In fact, the little chart on the treadmill shows that I am going in circles.  Sonya prefers the treadmill but Josh and I are unmotivated by it.  So at 8:30 last night, we took to the streets and walked close to 2 miles.  We mixed a little jogging in there and it felt great.  It was my favorite jogging weather. Chilly and drizzling.  Josh did good and I think I can convince him to go again.

Exercise is not easy to fit in to the schedule.  Like alot of life it is a choice of what you deem important.  The older we get the more we need to get in shape.  Not to mention.  I am almost 36 with a 17 month old.  I need to be in shape for the years to come.  There is something about kids; they either keep you young or make you old.

Just as we need physical exercise to keep our bodies in shape, so we need spiritual exercise to keep spiritually fit.  Spiritual disciplines are not always easy to “work in” our schedules but they are vitally important.  Paul wrote that bodily exercise profits little and he was not saying that because he didn’t like to exercise.  His point was that at the end of the road, when life is finished, how “fit” we are physically really doesn’t matter.  It is the spiriutal things that will have counted.  Our new year’s resolutions are not just to get physically fit but also spiritually fit.  To grow closer to Christ through our spiritual exercise of prayer and the Word.