Proof The Bible Is True

02/06/24

Some people love a good workout. They love to exercise, and they love releasing endorphins. I’m not one of those people. I wish I were, but I hate to exercise. Still, I work out because I know it helps me.

Maybe a doctor recently told you that you needed to exercise a little bit more. So, maybe you get on a treadmill and start lifting some weights. You start working out diligently. And you know that you’ve reached your fitness goals when you’re strong enough to pick up your exercise equipment and throw it out the window.

The fact is that if we want to be fit, if we want to lose weight, then we need to exercise more. The same is true of our spiritual lives. If we want to get in shape physically, then we need to apply ourselves. Effectively, we are working out what God has worked in.

Writing to the Christians in Philippi, the apostle Paul said, “Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain” (Philippians 2:12–16 NKJV).

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