When you hire a good personal trainer, you may shrink back wanting less discomfort from the training after the first few workouts. 
No surprise, exercise gets hard past a certain level of intensity, typically when you’re no longer able to speak comfortably. You’ll be tempted to cheat on the meal plan a trainer has prescribed for you. But the best of trainers will help you through it all because they are interested in helping others achieve physical fitness and dietery goals. Period. The trainer is interested in perfection. You may sometimes want something less, but you’ll get nothing less.
Take for example Brandon “BDB” Bender, who is a certified personal trainer from Dallas, Tx who is also a physical therapy technician. 
When his clients come to him, they want results but sometimes don’t realize what that entails. He helps people to get in shape by educating others, training them in the gym and customizing a meal plan for them. He’s not satisfied until client results are achieved. When they leave, they feel empowered to live life differently than before, to live a healthier, stronger more disciplined life.
Can we go too far seeking physical perfection? Gratification of the baser instincts is the great seduction.
Can we go too far seeking physical perfection? When Brandon trains to improve his own physique, he calls it ‘an endless cycle’. ‘You improve in some areas, but then you realize how much further there is to go – it seems endless’ Brandon says.
What if you truly had the physique of your dreams? Then what’s next?? You would have to not only maintain that aesthetic through exercise and cardio, but also maintain the perfect diet, the best macronutrient and water intake each day. What about your gut health? How about blood pressure numbers? Lean body mass? Body fat %? What about your body composition? We can easily be held captive by dreams of physical perfection. We see the best of everything on television, internet and social media and we want the same for ourselves. Gratification of the baser instinct is the great seduction.
Jesus commanded us to be perfect, but Jesus never spoke of physical perfection, but of moral perfection. He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. Isaiah 53:2. Jesus said ‘Be perfect as my father in heaven is perfect’ Matthew 5:48. He didn’t mean becoming perfect under our own steam, but by the power of God and the Holy Spirit living in us after we accept Him into our lives. We are already made perfect in righteousness in God’s eyes once we confess Jesus Christ is Lord, and believe God raised him from the dead (Rom 10:9). We can begin to see areas of our life being perfected as we yield to God’s will. We get angry less, we have more joy, peace,patience, kindness, gentleness, self control and we love others more and more.
Better a man becomes, the more he realizes the imperfection left in him.
Better a man becomes, the more he realizes the imperfection, the sin left in him. Being perfect may mean actually spending less time at the gym and other activities that can easily become obsessive. We’re not called to toil endlessly for physical perfection at all – the world tells us that lie.
But we should be wise stewards of everything God has given to us, including our physical body which is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
God is the author and perfector of our faith. He who started a good work in us is able to complete it. We may want something less, but we’ll get nothing less than God perfecting us as time goes on if we let Him do a good work in us.
Be Perfect.
