An exercise for people who are out of shape: Begin with a five-pound potato bag in each hand. Extend your arms straight out from your sides, hold them there for a full minute, and then relax. After a few weeks, move up to ten-pound potato bags. Then try 50-pound potato bags, and eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-pound potato bag in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. Once you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.
—Beverly Gross
Had you on that one. Let’s go for an application. People think they need more church (5 pounder). Keep the commandments (10 pounder). Pray more (50 pounder). Give more (100 pounder). Now face the reality.
Try this:
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Workouts won’t produce what faith can if placed in the right person.
Give it some thought.
Gary