Being Goal Oriented

This isn't the first time I've been up late walking circles around my house to get those last few steps or calories burned.  When I had a Fitbit it was to get over 10,000 and now with the Apple Watch it is to get all three circles around to goal.  I call myself goal oriented.  My husband has another term....obsessed!! I can't go to bed without those circles showing I met my goal. If I have to miss a day I find myself feeling sad and defeated. I failed. I missed my goal! I missed it by 20 calories! Might as well be 200!

As I was looking back through my workout history I saw that I've only missed my goal about ten times in the past six months. Not too shabby. 

Then I thought, what if my spiritual life had that same resolve. I will NOT go to bed without spending time with the Lord. I will NOT step a foot on my floor without giving Him my day. What would my goal chart look like if I tracked my time with Him?  I imagine it would not be quite as pretty. 

Don't get me wrong - keeping my body healthy is important. But, keeping my heart and soul healthy is more important.  My spiritual growth won't be tracked by my Apple Watch - but by my growth in understanding His word.  Of all the things that I work out to get smaller...my spiritual walk will grow bigger as my worldliness becomes smaller.  

I will not be defined by the world's beauty - but by my beauty in the eyes of Christ.  He doesn't care what dress size I wear.  He doesn't care if I met my circle goals on my watch.  He cares if I was light in a dark world. He cares if I spent time with Him. Allowing His word to wash over my sinful nature.  

So, I will continue to be goal oriented. But, thanks be to Him, my goal is shifting. Allowing Him to transform my body to be more like His. I love the passage below! 

“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained. Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.”

‭‭Philippians‬ ‭3:14-21‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Lord,

Thank you for the urge to increase my walk with You as well as my walk on the treadmill. Thank you for pointing me to this passage and reminding me that You alone can transform my body, heart, mind, soul.  Continue to re-align my goals to be more like You.

Amen