No doubt you have already begun to feel the strain of trying to keep some of those resolutions you made to start the new year – sleep more, eat less, lose weight. Life has been happening and it is starting to become easier and easier to let things go.
Kristi and I have plans to exercise more this year. We both have devices that tell us how many steps we take each day. I have to tell you, for the first couple of days it wasn’t that hard to hit our target number of steps. But then we had a cold spell and who wants to walk outside when its 35 degrees and the wind chill is 20.
Sure we could go somewhere to walk inside – and one evening we did – we went grocery shopping (maybe not the best decision). But over the last two weeks, it has become easier to just give in and say, “I’ll get my steps tomorrow.”
Our spiritual health is very similar. We may start out with good intentions of spending time with God in the Bible and in prayer, but life happens. It gets easier and easier to give in to other things and let our time with God slip.
My prayer today for you and for me, is that God would give us the strength we need to run the race – to stay fit spiritually. I pray that God would give us the discipline we need to seek him daily – to hunger and thirst for his truth. I pray that you and I will stay strong and really grow in our faith this next year.
Stay with it! The relationship is totally worth it!
Clay in the Hands 
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