Your Spiritual Journey
Walking to Mt. Doom
Walking to Mt. Doom
With my recent job change, I find I’m not getting as much exercise as I did previously. At my old job, there was a very pleasant park-like area to go for a walk—I enjoyed it quite a bit as a break in my work day. With my new job, there’s just sidewalks past old government buildings. I find I’m not nearly as motivated to get up and move. As a result, I have aches and pains and suspect I may have added a few pounds.
So, on the advice of a friend, I got an app for my phone. It tracks my mileage in walking to Mount Doom from the Shire (a Lord of the Rings reference). I got the app Sunday—11 miles down, 1769 to go as of Wednesday. It’s kind of a silly thing, but I felt I needed some type of long-term goal to get me up out of my Lazy Boy. So far it’s working but ask me again in a month.
Very often if we don’t set goals we don’t actually make any improvements. That’s true of physical fitness but it’s also true of our spiritual growth. We all need to grow spiritually in some way. Perhaps we need to pray more, need to grow in our patience, need to read the Bible more? The fact is that if we don’t make a goal and a plan to get there, it isn’t likely to happen.
We regularly see “Read the Bible in a Year” plans. There are apps for our phone that you can set up to give you daily readings or daily subjects to pray about. Perhaps you would rather set your own plan to read the Gospels in a month. There’s a multitude of ways we can help ourselves in our spiritual growth. I’ve said it before—if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. If you are not satisfied with your growth—set a goal and make a plan.
1 Timothy 4:7b-8 …Rather train yourself for godliness, for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
Rich
