Any spiritual sweat lately?

"The successful Christian life is always, without exception, a stripped-down, disciplined, sweaty affair."

~ R. Kent Hughes

Playing with sin may seem sweet - but it is deadly

"A fly lights on a leaf to taste the sweetness that grows there. Instantly three crimson-tipped, fingerlike hairs bend over and touch the fly’s wings, holding it firm in a sticky grasp. The fly struggles mightily to get free, but the more it struggles, the more hopelessly it is coated with adhesive. Soon the fly relaxes, but to its fly-mind “things could be worse,” because it extends its tongue and feasts on the sweetness while it is held even more firmly by still more sticky tentacles — just as happens when we swill our besetting sins. When the captive is entirely at the plant’s mercy, the edges of the leaf fold inward, forming a closed fist. Two hours later the fly is an empty sucked skin, and the hungry fist unfolds its delectable mouth for another easy entanglement." ~ R. K. Hughes

Are ALL of your energies and resources dedicated and consumed upon godliness?

No Manliness = No Maturity!

No Discipline = No Discipleship!

No Sweat = No Sainthood!

"...Exercise (constant, unhindered, intense, self-sacrificing commitment) thyself rather unto godliness (everything that is in complete accordance with God). For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. For therefore we both labour (strenuous toil) and suffer (agonize) reproach, because we trust (faith is the source and reason) in the living God (the giver of willpower and strength), who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe." ~ 1 Tim 4:7-10