Fours things to get ready for the gym
Summer is coming and everyone wants to be in a good shape, so the local gyms are full of people, some of them are squatting while others are running on the treadmills. Doing sports make us healthy, feel better and more organized. Gyms are also a good place for the meeting of Christians, where they can make some relations with those who don`t believe. Many of them attend the gym not just for workout, but to find a community. However, this place is also considered to be the place for a sin.
You should choose the gym to go attentively and carefully. There exist various types of gyms. For instance, there are some, where people are half-dressed, while in others you won`t meet such people. The first type is a right one for you, while you`d better escape the former.
You, as a Christian, should be prepared to serve as a weapon against the belief destruction. You are to get equipped in a proper way to hit all the snares in the gym.
Check out the following things you should take with you to the gym!
Take a partner with you
If you want to fight against something, then you are expected to locate the active mines. Some of the temptations can be settled in the visible places while others can be in the place you couldn`t even think about. Most people attend a gym when they are on the way to work or from it. This means they are much more destructed and non-focused.
Do you feel yourself like staring at a beautiful woman, who is on the treadmill, or on a handsome man, who is exercising not far? That`s the kind of your temptations. Are you watching in the mirrors around and see yourself as not as much thin or strong as you`d like to be? You may become addicted to the gym and always want to spend a few more hours believing they will make you closer to the body you dream about.
You can come across various landmines in a gym but you should prepare yourself to overcome them wisely. In most cases, you just need a partner, who will remind all the time why you have come there. This will help you listen to worship songs and pray to God, who can surely send a light to your exercising.
Don`t forget about your identity
Christians go to the gym with their own identity, they do not go there searching for the one. Why do humans need another identity or calling while going to the gym? God is the only one, whose applause matter.
Moreover, we should hope to get eternity with God, as we are his heirs. Still, why to struggle for earth beauty and strong body if it`s all passing? Although people realize this and they try to keep their bodies fit with appropriate diets and exercises, they value their bodies, realizing they are not eternal.
Take joy with you
We do care about our bodies, walking on the treadmills, but we should pay much attention to the growth in godliness, which is more valuable and provides a good life in the present and the life to come.
So, you shouldn`t be encouraged and motivated by bodies from the magazines but by God, who promises us an eternal life. A soft heart is a primary goal for every human and then your fit body. Take joy seriously, you should go out of a gym thinking about God and loving him more than you did before.
The main goal of your life is to glory and enjoy God forever. You are to feel God`s joy in every exercise and movement in the gym, although it`s very difficult.
God`s delight should fill your running, swimming, lifting. Think what a good body has God created. Enjoy his help when you accomplish the most difficult tasks, when you achieve the results when you feel more strengths to end the training. Thank God for the freedom you owe.
Take the Gospel
Going to the gym means you will meet various people, those who are tall and short, who are old and young, plumb and thin. But you will also come across those, who are not familiar with Christ. What is the way you will talk to them? Will you ask their names? Will you tell them about God? Will you pray for them?
You can use any strategy you like to share Christ with people who have never been to church.
A gym is a hotbed for sin, where people go to get something more from their life. Before going to the gym consider all your weaknesses and sins you may get into. Get yourself ready with the help of God.
