Today's Devotional

 

November 13, 2007

                                                                                  

Subject:   I Don't Go For Max 

Luke 15:13 - "And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living." 

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Every time I run into some youngster who is curious about how I got my muscles, they ask the same question.  "How much can you bench press?"  or "How much can you lift?"  In a few words I try to explain to them my philosophy on lifting weights which I think is a good philosophy for life.  In short, "I don't go for max."  

In weightlifting, "max" is short for maximum weight.  Often professional weightlifters win competitions for lifting as much weight as they can.  This is good for them but for regular people like me, it's not about how much weight you can lift, but rather the quality of the lift that you are doing.  That's what builds great muscle definition and muscle with endurance.  

In life sometimes we go for max.  We want to max out life by living it to the fullest or even by wanting to live it long.  That's what the prodigal did in Luke.  He was going for max, trying to live life to the fullest.  He soon realized that those things aren't really important.  What is important is the quality with which we live our lives.  

Today, whether it is one more day or 100,000 more days, it's not about how much life we lived, it's about how much life we lived righteously.  That's a quality life and as I say when I'm lifting, that's a quality lift.   

Carlen