Build Stamina
What my gym experience taught me about spiritual discipline, growth, and caring for both body and soul.
I never thought I would miss working out in the gym this much.
After my experience in 2024, I told myself never to talk about the gym again. I nearly disappeared from my body. Hahaha.
My workout routine was very rigorous, yet I wasn’t eating enough. The gym instructor encouraged me to eat about 8–10 times daily to match the intensity of my training. My goal was to gain weight and stay fit.
Many people kept asking why I was working out when it was obvious I wasn't fat or overweight.
But the purpose of going to the gym isn’t to lose weight only—it’s also to stay healthy and fit.
Exercise strengthens your bones and muscles. If you often feel weak and tired, you likely need more physical activity to help you feel energized throughout the day.
When I compare those days with now, I realize I’m no longer as agile and flexible as I used to be.
Well, isn’t this similar to our spiritual lives?
When we fail to exercise our spirit consistently through prayer, studying God’s Word, and engaging in things that edify us, we begin to experience spiritual weakness. Our spiritual muscles become lean and porous.
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost—Jude 1:20.
Just as going to the gym—whether to lose weight or stay fit—requires discipline and consistency to produce results, our spiritual lives also demand the same commitment if we desire growth and transformation.
If an athlete who is running in a race just to win a temporal prize subject themself to thorough discipline, mastery, and self control, how much more believers who are running to receive an eternal prize?
Let us remember the goal:
Not to be so robust outwardly that our spirit man becomes malnourished, weak, and neglected. And not to be so spiritually strong that our bodies are left unhealthy.
Take care of your body.
Take care of your soul.
Blessings 💕
But grow in grace (undeserved favor, spiritual strength) and recognition and knowledge and understanding of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (the Messiah). 2 Peter 3:18a AMPC.
