The Lord woke me up this morning with this thought, “the greater the resistance the greater the strength.”
It is like when we workout in the GYM. If you want to grow and get bigger you must tare and rip your muscles by lifting a heaver amount of resistance (weight). This hurts and in painful that is way we get sore after a “good workout”. After the workout the body brings in extra amount of nutrients to help heal the tares and rips in the muscles, resulting in growth, size.
Our job as christians is to make sure that we are spiritually putting ourselves in the GYM, and increasing the amount of resistance that we are dealing with. So that we can grow. When we face spiritual resistance and we are ripped, and torn by the resistance (or pruned) God sends the Holy Spirit in to heal the hurting areas so that we can grow. Just like the GYM God picks those areas that need to be grown. He knows which areas that need the resistance, pride, patience, purity, your thought life, those areas He will send resistance to grow you where you need it.
If we decide that we don’t want to go through the resistance then we will never grow.
When your in the physical GYM and you are lifting an amount of resistance more then that of which you normally lift you use a spotter. The spotters job is to help you keep “good form” and to talk you through the pain, so that you focus on the positive encouragement of your spotter and not the pain of your muscles ripping, and taring. Also the spotter often helps carry a little bit of the weight, just enough for you to lift it, but not to much to hinder the ripping process. A good spotter knows how much pain is good for you and when you are going to far.
In the Spiritual GYM we need a spotter as well. One that encourages us to get through the pain, one that at times helps carry the burden, but most often helps us to focus not on the resistance but the goal. A spiritual spotter knows when the tears are tears of growth, and when it is to much.
When you “do life together” you know when someone is in the GYM lifting a burden bigger then they have lifted before. Just like in the GYM go and help them get through and PUSH through so that God can come in and help heal the pain and hurt.
As Christians we are called to go through hard times of resistance…”its for your own good”.
What resistance are you going through today? What ares is God working on you? Do you have a “spotter”? Lets face resistance with a positive mindset so that we can grow and take over the world for God!!!!
