By Brad Bloom, Publisher, Faith & Fitness Magazine
[photo from the Faith RxD Instagram.]
Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do bad things happen at all? When someone like Becky Conzelman, co-founder of Faith RxD, dies at the age of 47 it shakes you and wakes you on so many levels. What is life all about? What is our plan, our strategy, our MO?
This is the kind of thing that can rattle the most fervent Christian and seemingly bolsters the message of disbelief by those who have no faith at all.
As much as I try to understand God and God’s ways, as much as I celebrate God’s wisdom and grace, as much as I have confidence in a great God, it is a moment like this that makes us all draw on Bible passages that say, “Who has known the mind of the Lord”. For sure this is way over my head, I’ll never figure it out.
I never got to personally meet Becky or directly co-labor with her. And – for all of you like me who must now wait for a time in eternity when we can be part of that fellowship, the legacy of her ministry, as beautiful as it is, can seem (at least to me initially) be like a pale second place prize. But – there is much we must learn and share with others.
No amount of anything can save you from death. This goes without saying. We all know it is true and yet we often exercise, eat, live our lives and even practice spirituality as if we can add to the work of grace that Jesus Christ has done.
Sure, we should exercise vigorously, eat well, and pray that our lives will be vibrant and long. Moreover you need to know and SERVE God with every capacity and moment that you have that you may BE LIFE to many and be fully used by God to shape the eternal results for others.
Christians in the faith and fitness culture often whip out the Bible verse that says, “For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things.” The life Becky lived begs us to keep reading further, understanding more, and then applying ourselves to our divine calling.
We need to be insistent and get the word out about God. We need to be an example of how to live: set the standard for how to talk, act, love, and be faithful and pure. That is some tough training and even heavier lifting. Do not neglect the gift that is in you. In fact give yourself entirely to them. This is far more than the Workout Of the Day. This is the Magnificent Obsession that becomes stronger daily.
More than fitness – More than life itself, let’s pray to God that Christ is constantly our one consuming desire and passion. This is our MO.
