You see many people wearing the bracelets that measure steps and heart beats.
Great device to “get the work” done physically each day.

The “bit” will tell you not how far you have gone,
It measures the number of steps.

If on a treadmill it tells you however many steps taken, but the only real distance covered occurs once you step off of the treadmill.

Be careful you are not simply counting the steps in your life.

As on a treadmill, you’ve really gone nowhere.

More than counting steps, review the distance covered, the lives affected in that journey and what progress the steps taken have achieved.

I love and recommend exercise, however, Paul wrote that “bodily exercise profiteth little” regarding the life to come.

Exercise and be fit, it makes for a better life.
But stretch your influence toward others, be a measuring device for their spiritual growth.

Cover actual distance in your pursuit of spiritual fitness. Determine to make any steps taken be for more than merely exercise. Yes, exercise and be in shape.

The race Paul spoke of isn’t to merely keep track of steps taken, but of souls influenced, lives affected and ground covered and taken in pursuit of Him.

In the measurement of your fitness… be diligent.

In the measurement of your spiritual fitness, how many people have you led to or influenced toward and to Christ? Do you know that number?

How often have you heard and obeyed and walked steps directed by The Spirit?

Do you track that?

I walk and jog for exercise often.

Everyday I need to be a positive influence for my Lord.

The Book of James would encourage you to know your Faith is being measured.

Terry
June 25, 2015