Bible Study and prayer -- contemplation

This is for me to record and remember this contemplation

... just as it seems every cell in my body wants to ache and scream with rebellion to getting active again… So also my old spirit man the one we call "flesh"… Seems to scream and yell and complain about activating my faith more regularly and consistently again…

This getting back into physical shape and getting back into spiritual shape (or getting into better spiritual shape might be a better way of saying it), it hurts. My sinful nature wages loud painful war against the desires of God that dwell in my heart.  My body, my physical body, screams and yells at me, saying stop; it wages war against the desires of my heart to be physically strong, to have endurance, and be physically fit again.

I see a correlation here. In a lot of ways it's encouraging because when my soul cries out "this pathway of righteousness for his name sake - it's too hard", at the same time my body aches because I'm doing the right thing for my body and it's just not used to it.

I take comfort that it's the same thing. This is just the discomfort of training. My physical muscles and my spiritual muscles will gain strength and endurance, but for now it hurts and these muscles tremble with the effort. It will not hurt forever, I will not tremble for ever. I must press on.