Thoughts and Speech in Your Sight
12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. 13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. Psalm 19:12-14 (KJV)
The Morning Exhortation
Bodybuilding is such a misleading term. At best we are like farmers. We plant the seeds for muscle growth with weight training. What we eat and drink provide the fertilizer and water, but it is God who gives the growth. There be many that do bodybuilding just to win a perishable trophy, to be envied in the eyes of others, or because they are already puffed up with pride. The righteous on the other hand, do bodybuilding because the body is the necessary physical capitol given to us by God to do good works. We workout to honor God as faithful stewards of the physical body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit. The body, as well as everything else we have, is for the Lord.
Today’s Bible Reading
2 Samuel 16
2 Corinthians 9
Ezekiel 23
Psalm 70-71
The Prayer Appointed for This Week from the Book of Common Prayer
O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule my heart; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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