Muscles

January 16th, 2012

Resetting the Compass – Day 16

Everyone wants to have strong muscles. In order to do that, the muscles must be worked. Muscles left to lay dormant lose strength and become flaccid. Muscles must be stretched and torn in order to grow stronger. When we work our muscles with weights at the gym, the muscles actually tear. Then it’s important to let them rest for 24 hours. It is during this rest period that the tears repair and the muscle actually grows stronger than it was the day before.

Our faith muscle works in much the same way. God uses providential circumstances in our lives to stress and tear our faith muscle. We feel pain and soreness just like our physical muscles do after a hard gym workout. We need a rest period. That is when we turn to God. God speaks to us in the rest period. We pray. We listen. We take some quiet time. Slowly our tears dry up and the tears begin to heal. After a while, our faith is stronger than it ever was before.

This year the compass moves toward trusting that every circumstance was given to me to help flex and strengthen my faith muscle.

And so, as another day goes by, the harder the workout, the stronger I get, and ….I have written.