{"id":3302,"date":"2024-10-05T21:13:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T21:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2024-10-05T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T21:13:10","slug":"your-spiritual-sixpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/?p=3302","title":{"rendered":"Your Spiritual Sixpack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Muscular<\/a>What\u2019s true in fitness is just as true when it comes to spiritual fitness \u2013 eliminating the \u201cexcess\u201d that would otherwise keep you from hearing and obeying your Heavenly Father.<\/p>\n

When you train spiritually, you\u2019re studying the Word of God and spending time talking with your King. You\u2019re listening to His Counsel and being aggressive when it comes to being obedient.<\/p>\n

\"Muscular<\/a>Before you start though, you want to clarify your \u201cInspiration.\u201d Why are you getting up extra early to read God\u2019s Word? Are you just going through the motions to pacify an otherwise guilty conscience, or is it because you want to ensure you\u2019re hearing and obeying your Heavenly Father in order to experience the benefits of Joshua 1:8<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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\"Muscular<\/a>When you train, are you focused? Are you getting \u201cthrough it\u201d or are you getting \u201cto it?\u201d Are you really listening and benefitting from what you\u2019re hearing in the context of the time you spend with your Heavenly Father, or are you just going through the motions?<\/p>\n

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\"Muscular<\/a>2 Corinthians 3:18 says \u201cAnd we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord\u2019s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with every increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.\u201d Is that true? Is there a stronger Presence of Christ in our lives than there was last week or even this morning?<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re not necessarily in a position to know, in that we\u2019re not the best judge of our own heart (Jer 17:9-10<\/a>). But we can look back over the ground we\u2019ve covered and notice how God has taught us and how our perspective has changed (1 Jn 2:12-14<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Ultimately we do all things for the same reason: To be like Him and make Him look good in the process (Col 3:17<\/a>). We want His Purpose, His Peace and His Power working through us to the point where others are drawn to it and become curious (Matt 5:16<\/a>).<\/p>\n

We do this, not just in terms of spiritual disciplines, but in all things including the gym and the dinner table. The result is a more \u201cmuscular\u201d Presence of Christ in every area of our lives and that is \u201cMuscular Christianity!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s true in fitness is just as true when it comes to spiritual fitness \u2013 eliminating the \u201cexcess\u201d that would otherwise keep you from hearing and obeying your Heavenly Father. When you train spiritually, you\u2019re studying the Word of God and spending time talking with your King. You\u2019re listening to His Counsel and being aggressive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[25,39],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-muscular-christianity","tag-muscular-christianity","tag-spiritual-six-pack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}