Do you ever feel like giving up? That the work in your hand is too much for you? Perhaps you have a first-hand understanding of what follows; whether you do or not, I hope you find it encouraging, just as I have.
I joined a gym last month and have been working out with a trainer. He has really pushed me during our sessions. I don't think I've ever poured sweat before in my life! Well, he was working me really hard on the machines and weights, and I honestly could barely finish out my sets...my muscles were burning and shaking. I didn't know where the strength would come from to finish. "Come on, Heidi, you can do it. Just five more," he would say. And I would groan loudly and pathetically. Yet, somehow, each time I did it! Well, one time near the end of our first workout session when I honestly didn't think I would make it, I through my head back in a dramatic plea for mercy, and I saw the reason I was always able to make it through to the utmost expenditure of my strength: he was bearing the weight that I could not.
Now, you may already know this, but when you are weight lifting, you are actually tearing down the muscle. It's during the rest period that the healing and building of the muscles happens. I wanted to rest, but what my trainer understood and was obviously doing, was giving me the opportunity to break down as much muscle as I was physically and safely capable of doing so that I could then build as much muscle as I was physically capable of building. I just had to trust him and keep on keeping on.
It gave me a physical example of what God is doing in those verses that talk about His upholding us and not letting us be shaken, that in our weakness He is strong. So, my friends, let us encourage each other to keep on keeping on -- trusting and looking to the One who is working for us...even when it feels like we will fail.
Now, you may already know this, but when you are weight lifting, you are actually tearing down the muscle. It's during the rest period that the healing and building of the muscles happens. I wanted to rest, but what my trainer understood and was obviously doing, was giving me the opportunity to break down as much muscle as I was physically and safely capable of doing so that I could then build as much muscle as I was physically capable of building. I just had to trust him and keep on keeping on.
It gave me a physical example of what God is doing in those verses that talk about His upholding us and not letting us be shaken, that in our weakness He is strong. So, my friends, let us encourage each other to keep on keeping on -- trusting and looking to the One who is working for us...even when it feels like we will fail.
