Accountability
I remained consistent with listening to scripture and my nightly reading and did my small compact workout this morning. I ended up doing 3 sets of 25 body-weight squats. I had hoped to be adding weight this morning, but there is a great mess currently around my weights making accessing them dangerous until the clutter is cleared. Another one of my long-term goals is to teach my family the value of cleanliness and order, but right now I need to trust the process that doing my small part (and big part when I can, but at least a little every day) will eventually break through and overcome this challenge as well.
Ponderings
Yesterday I was impressed with the phrase "the right way is to believe in Christ, and deny him not". I have tended to always just give this a very basic meaning of not denying his existence, but believing that he exists. However, remembering that I discovered covenants are very much about relationships and faith is too (when we have faith in our colleagues to get a job done, it's not that we believe they exist, but believe we can count on them - faith in Christ is more than a belief he exists, but a belief we can count on him to fulfill all his promises). So I started thinking past denying as simply stating disbelief or asserting belief in Christ to be false.
I started thinking of other scriptures using the word and thought of phrases such as, "deny yourselves of all ungodliness" and, "I, Moroni, would not deny the Christ". In the case of denying one's self of all ungodliness it would be keeping away from or refusing to allow any ungodliness. It had me thinking in terms of what we might be denying the Christ. His work and glory is to bring to pass the immortality and exaltation of man. If we refuse to accept his atoning sacrifice, to allow his healing in our lives - are we denying the Christ? Let's work to invite Christ into our daily walk and not deny him.
Be Strong!
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