“I Want…” And Why You Should Want It

If you never or rarely exercise then there’s a good chance you might find fitness to be – – – well, boring. If you’ve got it down to a routine weather that is occasionally, once a week or daily (like I just can’t keep away from the gym kind of daily) then there’s a really good chance that at some point or another and in fact perhaps way more often than you’d acknowledge you know that fitness will be boring.

After so many reps and sets and classes and miles and whatever you do, you may find yourself singing the chorus to that Sheryl Crow song, “All I Wanna Do is have some fun. And by the looks of it, I’m not the only one.”

I don’t care how good of a Christian you are or at least think you are, you’re human! Your physical body, every muscular or not-so muscular curve, every strong or out-of-shape part and every aspect of your body you love or can’t stand any longer aren’t the only things that prove that. It’s your spiritual fitness, or more often than not the lacking in your spiritual fitness, that screams that you’re human.

And though you may not be ready to admit that, God from the beginning of time has been all-in to meet you right there.

In this issue of Faith & Fitness Magazine we’re having conversations about DESIRE and how you can stretch your desire.

SOUND FAMILIAR?

The website toptens.com list some of the things kids want most. It includes:

• Being rich
• Being good looking
• Having lots of friends
• Having lots of toys
• Having more holidays
• Traveling around the world
• Getting a dream job
• Getting into heaven

If that all sounds familiar it’s probably because as a kid you had many of those same desires. As an adult you may still want most of the same things. Your adult toys may be different and more expensive from what you wanted as a child but adults still want toys – lots of toys. Wealth, success, opportunity and yes, heaven – we all want them.

But usually not so familiar is the understanding that God puts the WANT inside of you. We often make it selfish and let it become corrupted but God knows that desire is a good thing – a really good quality. It’s part of the nature of God – the nature of love.

PIVOT

This is a huge shift to make in your life. When you pivot from assuming that your desires are your self-fabricated wants to understanding that in fact they’re meant to be God authoring His very best in you toward an exclusive one-of-a-kind outcome THEN you begin a journey of expectation. It’s the expectation of obtaining the promise. It’s not what you could do, it is what God will do.

Is that arrogance? No. Rather, you’ll become trained in humble perseverance. And desire isn’t a spiritual trick to gradually let you become eternally hopeful but never satisfied with actually achieving. It is the God-given appetite directed toward attainment and possession of God’s plan and promise for you. While you’ll have to work at it, you’ll find all that hard work can be joy filled faithfulness in your relationship with a God that satisfies.

THE DESTINATION IS THERE

As the Carmen song above says, “Your desire is the confirmation that the destination is there. God wouldn’t put it in your spirit if it wasn’t going no where [anywhere]. So, set your sights on the promises and don’t you be scared.” Fitness and everything else in life we want to do doesn’t have to become boring. All of it can be ever new – renewed daily in Christ.

It’s not about what you bring to the workout it’s about what you believe. Take your time to read these 2 Bible chapter so you can see how God intends faith to drive life.

Through faith many in the Bible had faith but didn’t have the promise in hand – they didn’t fully see what God had in store for them. Nonetheless they desired it, believed it and did it anyway. They didn’t have Christ, but you do!

So, let’s get going and dig into DESIRE. It’s the first step toward an incredible lifestyle in Christ. During this year we invite you through an entire process of growth and transformation. The journey begins with desire. But that’s only the beginning. When you commit your ways to God you see a clear way forward. You can permanently dwell in strength and adventurous joy. That leads us down a bright road to radiate God’s love and hope to others.

Train strong in Christ,

-Brad Bloom, Publisher

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