Exercise yourself towards Godliness. For bodily exercise profits a little and make your body energetic, but Godliness exercise is profitable for your soul which is the central point of all your life. The fact that we are promised of life that now is and of that which is to come." 1 Timothy 4:7-9
We need to be healthy by exercising our hollyness.
Let us look at eight ways to grow and increase in our hollyness and then Godliness, thus becoming more like God in our character and morality.
Let's Hit the Gym of Hollyness that qualifies Godliness:
Godliness and grace -
Grace empowers us to be godly. To be more like God, we need to know what God is like. To know God takes prayer and reading the Word.
Godliness and prayer -
Prayer is vital for us to truly know God because that is how we experience Him as we are meant to.
Godliness and morality -
The fullness of compassion is in Christ. The fullness of love, compassion, righteousness, and true moral path for the soul is found in Jesus Christ. This goes to show that the essence of the Christian life is morality.
Godliness and experience -
Through prayer, by presence, His face, and shutting out the things of this world in the secret place, you can experience God as He truly is.
Godliness and growth -
Reading God's Word not only allows us to know what He is like but also helps develop our spiritual discernment. This is what we are to be dedicated to and grow in - our exercising ourselves towards godliness.
Godliness and confession -
Confession of sin brings a cleansing from sin and all unrighteousness. This is how we can progress in sanctification and becoming more like God. We all have things both big and small that the Lord wants to have confessed, cleansed, and released out of our lives.
Godliness and love -
The number one thing we can do to be godly is love - love God and as a result, love our neighbors. Jesus Himself said that this was the most important thing, (John 14:21).
Godliness and witnessing -
The best witness you can do is to grow in godliness, thereby showing people and demonstrating who Christ is, instead of only telling them about who God is, (Galatians 2:20).
Godliness and personal hygiene.
Personal hygiene is an important thing in the life of a believer. As long as we claim.we are practicing hollyness, we need also to maintain high standards of cleanliness and personal grooming or etiquette.
Fixating our eyes and minds on the things above, not the world below allows us to know the importance of godliness and take care of our soul which lives forever. Hitting the gym, being fit, and looking good is great but let's hit the gym of godliness.
Blessings,
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