“When you really think about it, you’ll realize that your health is your responsibility, not your mother’s, not your spouse’s, not your insurance company’s, not the government’s…and not God’s.”  Dr. David Ajibade

How much physical activity is a part of your average day?

Physical exercise has some value, but spiritual exercise is much more important, for it promises a reward in both this life and the next. (1 Tim. 4:8; NLT)

Ready for the second simple step to great health?  If you just arrived and you’re wondering what this is all about, take a quick look at Monday’s DG for the overview, and then Wednesday’s for the first step.  Now for the second step, let’s hear the drum roll again, please!

The second simple step to great heath is exercise, or as one of my exercise-phobic friends prefers, “activity.”  I bet you already guessed that one, didn’t you?  Yep, God designed our bodies to move.  Not to sit behind a desk only to go home at night and sit on the couch in front of the resident cyclopes.

Here again, I’m not saying you have to exercise so many times a week for so many minutes doing such and such exercise.  No, I’m just saying move more this week than you did last week.  For some of you, you didn’t move much last week, so a little improvement will be a fantastic breakthrough.  For others of you, the situation is entirely different.  Again, it’s your call to decide how much more is reasonable.  Better a little more that you do consistently, than a lot more that you find excuses to avoid doing.

Bottom line, folks, exercise is not optional!  If you want to get the expert view, check out Sharon’s 10/11/07 DG entitled, “You Knew It Was Coming.”  Don’t let yourself get intimidated, though…just move more this week than you did last.  Pretty simple, isn’t it? 

Lest you get spoiled, the Third Simple Step is a little more challenging than the first two, but I believe when you hear it, you will agree that it is pretty simple as well.  Have a great weekend!  See you on Monday.

Prayer Power
Lord, we thank you for the wonderful miracle of the human body.  We thank you that the keys to great health are so incredibly simple in spite of the fact the the body is so amazingly complex–complex beyond our understanding.  Lord, give us the grace to do the simple things and not spend so much time looking for the complex (and costly).

Link of the Day
The Miraculous Healing Power of Exercise

Blessings on you as you purpose to move a little more today than you did yesterday.