I know you don’t all have a gym at home but a lot of you go out to a gym on a regular basis to exercise and I was just thinking about you this morning. I thought if you haven’t been able to go for five weeks now, you’re probably really missing it.
One of the things that I heard few years ago that I really like is that ‘the more you move the more you can move and the less you move the less you can move’. You can move and that’s really important to me because I’m a little bit older than some of you who are not old, but I’m aging every year and I have been working out now for 14 years. My husband has been working out for 55 years.
Those of you that have seen Dave, that helps you understand how he looks so good and has such a flat tummy and doesn’t look his age. He will be 80 this year and he maybe looks 65.
He tried for years to get me to work out and I just kept telling him I didn’t have time but you know what, the bottom line is we do have the time to do what we really want to do. We all have the same amount of time. So it just depends on how we divide it up as to what we’re going to do with it.
I really want to encourage you, don’t use the pandemic as an excuse to gain a bunch of weight. You do really have to be careful how you set your mind in a time like this.
I really want you to take care of yourself, you know, a lot of you may think well, I don’t have time to take care of myself, I’m too busy taking care of other people, but the truth is if you don’t take care of yourself, you will get to the point where you don’t worry, you can’t take care of other people and so things like exercising and taking the time to eat, right?
You’re worth it you’re worth a little bit of extra money to get healthy stuff. You’re worth it to take some time to work out, you’re worth it to take some time to maybe prepare foods that take you a little bit longer to prepare invest in yourself because the world needs you.
You are important to what God’s doing in the earth and every single one of us were so unique and God created every one of us for a purpose. You have a purpose. You may be feeling so useless and I get, you know, I’m used to working and working hard, I’m not accomplishing anything today, but you’re not useless.
You can take a walk, you don’t have to walk five miles to say you walked, go out and walk for as long as you feel like walking, do what you can do. Don’t use l can’t do everything I want to do as an excuse to do nothing. I found out in life that whatever I do is better than doing nothing and that’s really why I first started working out. I used to give excuses all the time.
14 years later, still exercising. I really think it’s one of the reasons why at my age I’m still doing so much, doing conferences, writing books and you know have the energy to do things every day. I want to really encourage you to set your mind.
Always drink water, I don’t know how some of you can’t like water. If you don’t like water it’s probably because you’re used to drinks, you have got a bad habit of grabbing a soda or something else, that is not good for us, drink good and clean water instead . Remember, there’s a lot of people that need you and you really need to take care of yourself.
In addition to our physical health, even more important is our spiritual life. And this is a time when you really need to spend time in the Word of God.
