You Can Avoid a Spiritual Heart Attack -Exercise

Exercise.

It is well-known that a sedentary life-style can contribute to physical heart attacks.  Similarly,  a spiritually sedentary life-style can have serious consequences.  For example, a person may have some share in the Christian ministry but may limit this to what might be called the comfort zone, putting forth little or no effort to become "a workman with nothing to be ashamed of, handling the word of the truth aright."  (2 Timothy 2:15) Or one may attend some Christian meetings but may do little to prepare for and participate in them.  There may be no spiritual goals or appetite or enthusiasm for spiritual things.  The lack of spiritual exercise eventually weakens, even deadens, what faith he might once have had.  (James 2:26)  The apostle Paul noted this danger when writing to Hebrew Christians, some of whom apparently had fallen into such a  sedentary spiritual life-style.  Notice how he warned of the possible hardening effect this could have on their spirituality.  "Beware, brothers, for fear there should ever develop in any one of you  a wicked heart lacking faith by drawing away from the living God; but keep on exhorting one another each day, as long as it may be called  'Today.' for fear any one of you should become hardened by the deceptive power of sin." -Hebrews 3:12, 13.

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The Watchtower, 2001