New Years Resolutions and Whatnot

Well it’s New Years day and you know what that means, resolutions (and wasted gym memberships). It seems that this time if year everyone comes up with a change they want to make so that the next year is better than the last. I was never big on resolutions, I believe that changes should last a lifetime not just a year, and also that I don’t need a calendar to tell me when a good time to start changing my life is when there is no better time than the present. Anyways, I digress. A lot of resolutions seem to be health related so that got me in the mood for this post. I try to maintain a high level of physical fitness; although I may not be a competitive athlete anymore (I hope this changes though) I still enjoy running, swimming, biking, and lifting weights to stay fit. It hit me the other day that if I work so hard (like many this time of year) to keep my body fit I should be working infinitely harder for my spiritual fitness. At best I have 50 years left on this earth (assuming I live to be 70-ish), but my soul will live forever. So why do I put four days a week into my earthly body but one day into my spiritual one? Now this is not to say that working out is good, what service to God am I if I die at the age of 35 from a heart attack? Likewise, what good am I if I have the body of a pro athlete but the heart of a… well, bad person? This is not so much a resolution (already said I don’t like those) as it is a life choice. No more will I allow myself to get caught up so carelessly in the things of the world, and no more will I allow myself to get spiritually fat. Instead I will strive for spiritual fitness, as should we all, because above all that is what matters the most. My body will eventually break down as I veer farther from my “prime” but my soul will last forever. Instead of focusing so much on the material I’d saw it is best to focus on the eternal because that is what matters the most.