Exercise

Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives.
2 Peter 3: 11, NIV


"He [Peter] has just described how the earth is going be renovated by fire at the end of the age, and asks, "Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be ... ?" (2 Peter 3:11) That is, in light of God's plan for eternity, how should you be living your life in the present? He then proceeds to answer his own question ... .

... Peter says we are to be godly. He echoes the words of the apostle Paul who wrote to Timothy, "Exercise yourself to godliness. For ... godliness is profitable for all things ..." (1 Timothy 4: 7-8). He means that godliness, like physical fitness, does not just happen -- you have to work at it.

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What are the exercises? Bible study, prayer, self-control, discipline in what we watch, read, and listen to, accountability, fellowship, worship, service, and giving. In order to be godly, those are the exercises we must carry out."


David Jeremiah, Tough Minded About Heaven, What You Always Wanted to Know About Heaven.