Exercise Massive Indoctrination

God never intended exercise to be a big part of our life. It actually ages the body faster. If you look at the picture of people from 150 years ago who had to work very hard to make a life in the wilderness, you will see they look much older at 30 than we do at 60.

Work outs are tantamount to the hard work the pioneers had to do that aged them sooner than they would have if they had lived a more leisurely life.

Work is good and is far different than deliberately working out to have big muscles or a georgeous body. God said that exercise is of "little" value. It's only value is to make us temporarily strong for a specific task. Those who spend a lot of time at the gym, will age faster than those who rest after working to earn money to live.

If America had spent as much time on raising their children in the Lord, praying together, speaking of the Lord as they walked along in life, we would not have progressed on the fast track to debauchery. When outer appearance is a goal greater than any other, then we have an idol, worshiping the body rather than God. Spending our time on something that elevates ourselves rather than time spend worshiping God.

1 Samuel 16:7 "But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

2 Corinthians 4:18 "As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."

2 Corinthians 11:3 "But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ."

1 Timothy 4:8 "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come."

We are far better off exercising our spiritual muscles than we are exercising our body to become prideful of our outer appearance.

Go ahead and exercise if you like to, but don't pressure anyone else to do what you do and don't promote it as a good thing.

We have been fed a load of hype about exercise, perfect food and obsession with physical beauty. It is a good thing to take care of our bodies, but obsession leads to excess bringing harm.

Walking is something everyone did in the times of the patriarchs, only athletes who wanted to excel in sports did rigorous training.

When anything is popular to the masses, the seculars push it continually, you can be sure it is not godly. Exercise and perfect food has been promoted dramatically by ungodly people for decades now. The devil knows just what to do to distract gullible unspiritual believers from the important matters. The secular community is already deceived by these things, but believer ought to be more discerning and less concerned with fitting into a paganistic culture.

Matthew 23:23-24 "23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cummin, but you have disregarded the weightier matters of the Law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.…"

When ungodly materialistic obsessed people are promoting something you can be sure it is not aligned with the principles of God.

Our obsession with outer beauty, wealth, "natural" food and many other unimportant matters, have diluted the Christian walk, so much so that few people understand what authentic Christianity looks like.

Matthew 10:16 "“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves."
Colossians 2:22-23 "…22 These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. 23 Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh."