Moment of Meditation: Both This Life and the Next (1 Timothy 4:8)

Original Broadcast: October 2011

For physical training is of some value,
but godliness has value for all things,
holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
(1 Timothy 4:8)

Both This Life and the Next

A group of country music legends came together in the late 1990's to form the group "Old Dogs". One of their songs was entitled "Still Gonna Die". The song goes through everything you can possibly do to make your physical life last longer. But in the end you're still gonna die. What does your physical training and striving mean?

Training in godliness is primarily spiritual. It looks not to this life only but also to the life to come. Physical training looks just to this life. Spiritual to this life and the next. Where is the bulk of your training and striving? Is it physical or spiritual? Are you building up for this life only? Or for this life and the next? Meditate upon that this morning. Amen.