When I start to get fat, lazy, and drowsy because all seems good, right and well. Watch out! 

Beware!

Lord when all seem right.

Why do I sleep like it is night.

Come Holy Spirit restore my sight.

That evil may not creep in like a thief in the night.

Awake, awake my lazy sleepy soul!

Keep your eyes upon the Savior that He may keep you whole.

When all seems right and good each day evil will send an agent like a mole.

Keep your mind, eyes, and heart upon the Lord I say so evil can not take it's toll.

Your Fat!

"Your Fat!" was on the liscens plate of  exercise trainer Richard Simmons car. That seems kind of harsh. But it is at the same time caring, if  your into tough love. Everything Richard Simmons said and did came from a desire to want to help people get healthy. He really understood the dangers of obesity and lack of exercise because he had lived it. He also knew that there was hope and help for over weight people because he had found it in his own life. Sometimes times I feel spiritually fat. To me spiritually fat is when I have faithfully come to church when ever the doors where open. Faithfully studied my bible, faithfully prayed for people, faithfully fellowshipped, and faithfully talked about God and to God. All is well at home, my relationship with God is going good, and each day my routines are the same. Call it life in a rut if you wish. I call it spiritually fat. I am so fat that I am like a lamb that has laid down and cant get up. You know so heavenly minded that I am no earthly good. When I get spiritually fat (everything is going along so well) I become blind to the little things that are wrong. But thanks be to God that I have a spiritual exercise trainer who cares. The Holy Spirit comes at these times and urges me to stop being lazy and spiritually stretch and reach. For me this means to take a look and see if  I am thinking more highly of my self than I ought. To look and see if  I am neglecting to do things that God tells me to do. To look and see if  any evil has crept into my life unnoticed. By this I mean have I developed a critical or judgmental attitude with out noticing it? Have I picked up so bad habits unnoticed? When I am thinking I am doing real good, or think that I would never do thus and such:; LOOK OUT! For right around the corner is a fall waiting to happen. I am so glad that the Holy Spirit keeps me on my toes and moving toward God. It is when I am spiritually lean and hungry that I am at my best. To be lean I have to daily empty out everything from the day before and let God fill me afresh. To be fit I have to exercise daily my prayer muscles, my jaw muscles as I eat God's word not suck down milk. I have to exercise my mind as I wash it and renew it. I have to exercise my body as I practice being His hands and feet and as I bend my knees in prayer and raise my hands in praise. I have to exercise my spirit by obeying and serving God, by walking and speaking in the spirit boldly. Becoming spiritually fat is easy. When all is well live a complacent life. Don't look around, don't seek, just sit there. To be spiritually fit takes work!

But reject profane and old wives' fables, and exercise yourself rather to godliness. For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come. 1 Timothy 4:7-8

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