Do Something

9 You who are young, be happy while you are young,

    and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth.

Follow the ways of your heart

    and whatever your eyes see,

but know that for all these things

    God will bring you into judgment.

10 So then, banish anxiety from your heart

    and cast off the troubles of your body,

    for youth and vigor are meaningless.  Ecclesiastes 11

I attend a weekly Bible study that's half study, half cardio workout.  It's a lot of fun and I can check one exercising day off my calendar.

So let's make this clear, I'm super uncoordinated.  I never played any sports besides golf, and I even then, I once managed to hit a ball backwards.  Yes, I'm talented.  Group exercise classes that involve fast motions scare me!  I can handle a yoga class, because then I can remain still and I don't have to hop around in sync with an instructor.  When the small group classes at my church were announced, I was pretty hesitant to sign up for this one.  I prayed about it and I knew the group leader, and I followed where God wanted me and signed up for this.

I still flail about in the class and modify a lot of the exercises because I my body doesn't do things as fast as the people on the video can do.  However, I give it everything I've got!  I figure I'm making a fool of myself and I'm around a bunch of women who won't judge me.  If I make a fool of myself, they might feel more comfortable with what their own abilities are.

It's the same thing with God.  He wants us to go out and spread his word with those around us.  He wants us to find ways to show his love to those in our lives.  He wants us to try something!  Jump outside your comfort zone and flail about.  Banish that anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body.  He doesn't need you to become the next televangelist and convert thousands.  He has a plan for you and it may be to help one person grow closer to him.  Those things that are holding you back are meaningless.