I have become a bit of a fitness nut over the past few years. I just love learning new types of programs to keep me challenged and engaged. I especially enjoy mixed martial arts, yoga and barre.
All three of these styles of physical activity incorporate some of the same basic principles.
Always firmly ground yourself.
The more firmly you are grounded, the more fluid, strong and graceful your movements.
Build on a strong core, and you can expand your upper body, breathe deeply, lift your gaze upward, soften your shoulders and open your heart.
Today’s reading reminded me of these principles. Jesus was just beginning His ministry and was gaining a following. It says, “many believed in His name when they saw the signs He was doing.” The next sentence says, “but He did not entrust Himself to them” because “He knew what was in a man.”
Jesus grounded Himself. Not on how popular He became, or what other people thought of Him. Jesus grounded Himself on the core foundation of His Father’s love and who He said He was.
As a result, Jesus, knowing that people would disappoint Him, betray Him, and eventually kill Him, He could still open His heart and love them. He would not entrust Himself to them but drew on the strength of His identity and the unfailing love of His Almighty, everlasting Father.
“When He was reviled, He did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but continued entrusting Himself to Him who judges justly.” 1 Peter 2:23
Here is my prayer for all of you today, my friends:
“That according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:16-21
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