On Resolve: Faith and Exercise

As difficult as it sometimes is to understand why I have to keep "filling up" my faith, it occurred to me that such a practice is required with most good things in life.

Exercise is an example. We need exercise, to get out, to move around. It makes us feel alive, its benefits are great. And yet it's completely within our power to ignore it. Indeed, the tele is an enticing enough opponent to exercise that we can slump on the sofa for entire weekends, neglecting our bodily calls for action right until we actually interpret them as calls of nature.

Obviously, our ability to ignore exercise doesn't negate it's importance. In fact it often accentuates it. Sometimes the reasons to stay in bed feel far more appealing than those to get up and go for a run, and yet we always seem to feel worse after a day spent in dormancy, than a day spent in activity.

Exercise takes effort, and we are rewarded with the literal building up of our bodies. Faith also takes effort, and rewards equally with the building up of our hearts. Unfortunately, you can't go out on a saturday night and show off you recently beefed up religious security.