I just read this funny on another blog: “This is my new exercise plan. Just came across this exercise suggested for older people to build muscle strength in the arms and shoulders. It seems so easy, so I thought I’d pass it on to some of my friends. The article suggested doing it three days a week.
Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side.
With a 5-lb potato sack in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, then relax.
Each day, you’ll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer. After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato sacks.
Then 50-lb potato sacks and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato sack in each hand and hold your arm straight for more than a full minute. (I’m at this level)
After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the sacks.”
Is that like start with church on Sundays and work up to adding Wednesdays? When you have mastered that throw in a potluck, a prayer vigil and a struggle to get to the missions meetings. If you are real strong, in a few months you can include a retreat or convention. And maybe… just maybe…one day you will include some Jesus… and a stab at a real relationship with him.
1 comment:
we go to Jerusalem to make the sacrifice each year and hopefully one year we will begin to wonder why God wants us to go through this ritual that doesn't remove our guilt...
why don't we tell each other the shadow is not the thing? but part of the reason is that we still love the world when we get saved and we don't have a framework to hang this radical new teaching about love properly so God weans us off of it through the process you describe
those of us who are willing to be satisfied with something less than God never get to the relationship and are stuck with the shadows
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