What role does faith play into fitness?

Being unhealthy will get you to heaven quicker. Just sayin'

I like you

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NIV)

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (NIV)

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.

In response to many others who believe in themselves, so do I. I don't believe God will blow my fat up for me. I believe I should take care of myself because God will be honored through my hard work. It feels amazing to know that what I'm doing isn't just for me, it's for a purpose that exists far beyond my understanding. To honor my Creator by taking care of what He has given me is an unimaginable blessing.

It makes me so sad to think that people attribute their success in fitness, health, wealth or anything to god. YOU did the work... its YOUR achievement.. You worked your *kitten* off and you got out of bed and forced yourself to be better.

You dont blame your shortfalls on God, Dont rob yourself of your successes and say they were the work of God.


I have faith in my own ability. I dont pray, I have morals that arent dictated by a book, but by the type of human I want to be.

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The only place that faith has in fitness or in the entire world is to provide motivation to be better if they cannot find it anywhere else in their life.

#rantover

I am not a religious person but I was raised one.

It's like that story of the man stranded on a roof during a flood who prayed to be helped by the all mighty (whomever that is) and a canoe comes by...nope God will save me, boat comes by...nope God will save me...Helicopter comes by...nope God will save me.

Reaches the pearly gates and says...God why didn't you save me? Response from God...WTH I sent you a canoe, a boat and a helicopter...

We are given the tools we need it's up to us to use them and that only requires faith in ourselves, motivation and a willingness to accept where we are and that we need to be better.

ETA: and the smarts to know when you are given the tools you need.

This. Thus the saying, God's work must truly be our own, we can't just sit around with our hands stretched out waiting for a miracle

faith in myself and that is all

Should I worship you now?

Faith has everything to do with every aspect of my life, I know that God is with me and that I need to push hard to meet my fitness goals, and I often pray for God to give me the strength mentally and emotionally to make it through lots of things including my workouts, when I feel like giving up I can pray to Him and He gives me His peace.

Just wondering what role, if any, your faith plays into why you want to get fit and how you incorporate it.

I have no religious faith.

I do have faith in myself, and my ability to finish what I start. I have faith that I can change the way I eat to a healthier way. I have faith that I can improve my fitness level.

"Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."

For the last 16 months the gym has become my Religion.....my faith lies in myself. I have faith that i wont quit and i will finish my sets. I have faith that i will be even better and stronger a year from now. I have faith in myself that i have what it takes to Protect this House .

I am not a religious person in that sense but, there are alot of OMGs and all that uttered the day after leg day

The following is a modernized, version of a prayer that John Calvin wrote. Father giver of all good gifts fill our hearts with gratitude for this food laid before us. May we partake of it soberly and frugally eating only that which is necessary to strengthen us unto your service. May the pleasure that we take in it be as nothing to the joy we take in doing your truth. Amen

Overeating is a sin. It is a violation of God's standard for human behavior. Do not misunderstand - I fail to live to this standard often. Also I said nothing about being overweight.

I thank you for the question it has reminded me to pray about my eating habits.
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