New Each Day

Summer is fast slipping away, along with a few of the goals I've set for myself.  The past couple weeks, I've found renewed strength to start again in my challenge to learn a new habit...getting up early to go for a run.  I was doing pretty good for a while a couple months ago, then it was only sporadically, and eventually I stopped.  Unfortunately, I let other things take priority, and fell into my old habit of wanting to sleep in more than I wanted to exercise. 

There's been a couple Bible verses that I keep in the front of my mind since this new attempt at creating healthy habits...and today I found more:

"For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.  The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world.  On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds."

2 Corinthians 10:3-4



For too long I've been ignoring God's desire for me to take care of my body (back in chapter 5 it's referred to as a tent...which always makes me think of Uncle Danny when he called it a carcass...).  But it's soooooo hard to make myself get out of bed sometimes.  Chapter 5 tells me I'm a new creation, the old has gone and the new has come...but this is one area that I am still living with old habits.  So each morning when my alarm goes off, I have to focus my thoughts on verses like these:

"...inwardly, we are being renewed day by day.  (2 Corinth 4:16)

"but those whose hope is in the Lord will renew their strength."  (Is 40:31)

And so I've been getting up, lacing my shoes, and meditating on those words that renew my strength each day to get out there and do something.  And when I get home, it's those words that help me make smarter choices with what I'm eating as well.  Let's just say, the scale doesn't lie...and I can see my efforts paying off.  The way I feel each day is also proof that God's strengthening me in a new way...creating new habits for me as long as I'm obedient to want he wants for me.  New each day...