“If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.” – 2 Corinthians 11:30
In eighth grade, Spencer Arnold was undersized and not very athletic. “I wanted to compete in sports and ultimately wanted to change my body composition. I picked up a barbell in the spring of my eighth-grade year and was blessed to have a high school weightlifting coach who allowed me to work out for two hours before school and an hour during school. While I did play sports in high school, it became clear quickly that I was most fit for the sport of weightlifting.”
Spencer has gone on to receive many accolades and he has been an Olympic coach.
He sees a parallel between weight lifting and the Christian walk. “In weightlifting, the only way you excel is (1) through years and years of consistent hard work, (2) trusting that your hard work will pay off, and (3) recognizing that nothing good comes easy or fast. Those three things are exactly true about my walk with the Lord.”
He start a nonprofit organization called Faith Rx'D, the aim of which is to help gym owners, coaches, and athletes leverage their role as a coach or their gym for the good of the gospel and the glory of God. “We help facilitate Bible studies that happen weekly in their gyms,” Spencer said, “and we hold training camps in which we equip these coaches to be both excellent in their coaching or performance role as well as excellent in their elevation of Christ.”
We need to acknowledge that we are weak and Jesus is strong. Today in prayer, praise the Lord that He is strong enough to overcome every obstacle.
“We live in a world full of people struggling to be, or at least to appear strong, in order not to be weak; and we follow the gospel which says that when I am weak, then I am strong. And this gospel is the only thing that brings healing.” – N.T. Wright
God’s Word: “But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.” – 2 Corinthians 12:9
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