1. Check-Up:
- Current relationship with God (estranged, lukewarm, passionate?)
- Seeing God's work and His plans unfolding in your life?
- Do people see Christ shining through you?
- Negative or unGodly thoughts harassing your mind?
- Experiencing zeal and enthusiasm in ministry work?
2. Diet:
- Finding nourishment from the Word of God regularly?
- Finding it easy to skip these 'meals'?
- Obtaining spiritual sustenance from fellowshipping with believers?
- Feeding on 'empty calories' by snacking on pleasures of the world?
3. Rest:
- Spending quiet moments of meditation and communion with God?
- Suffering burn-out from ministry work that your focus on God is lost?
4. Exercise:
- Displaying Christian attributes and Holiness in your daily life?
- Exercising your spiritual giftings and talents?
- Are you exercising them regularly or sporadically?
- Practising a virtue for a wrong motive (e.g. to create an impression)?
- That is like exercising a a muscle improperly.
5. Avoid pollutants:
- Dabbling with things hazardous to spiritual wellbeing?
- Trapping yourself in an environment filled with unhealthy influences?
- Engaging in things that will damage your Christian witness?
____________________________________________________________
Examine your commitment level to these aspects of Spiritual Fitness. How much commitment have you made to developing your spirituality? Just as beginining an exercise programme and starting to eat healthy and regularly do not show immediate results, it takes long-term commitment and sustained effort and discipline to keep spiritually fit. This can only be accomplished through prayer and total reliance on God.
~lene
[Written on 10 May, 1500hrs]
No comments:
Post a Comment