I am a small man and last Wednesday night, I dreamt that I was a trucker. I was driving one those large big truck that big people drive. If I had a mirror in that dream, I would love to see how I look like. Well that was Wednesday, on Monday I went to the gym. It was only my 2nd time in the gym in my lifetime if I can remember correctly. Well I thought that its good thing to start my new year honoring my resolution. It's only January, isn't it? :-)

I went to a gym near the church office and when I stepped in, there were no customers there. The staff showed me the 2 types of equiprments. The first, cardio workout equiprments which are the bicyle & track mill to workout the heart to help build stamina. Secondly, the weight training equipments to get strength/muscles. These are the irons, dumbells and host of other equipments. So I got changed and went to do some stretching. Then several guys came in and they went straight to the weight training equip & pump iron. After my stretching, I went to do some cycling and they were more guys come in and they went straight to pump iron. Then I rested and the guys at that time ½ dozen of them pumped iron. After that I joined them wondering what its all about and I was pumping iron and they were pumping iron. I didn’t spend a long time there and went to the track mill and they were still pumping iron. In my 1 hour here, nobody joined me to do any cardio-exercise at all.

I wonder to myself, what do they need all those muscles for ? I mean I go to the market I see ladies carrying heavy groceries. I go to the construction sites, I see labourers. I don’t see the guys there.

This incident among many others highlighted to me how much we are spending on things that we do not need. We exercise our mind, we exercise our body, but what we really need is some exercise in the heart, some cardio type of workout (and I don’t mean the type that I did in the gym on Monday) It’s the type we do in church.

When Jesus told his 12 disciples that one of them is going to betray him. One by one, they asked Jesus “Surely, not I ?”. Jesus kept quiet until its Judas turn and when Judas asked “Surely Not I?”, Jesus replied "Yes, it is you". I thought sure enough Judas would have had enough warning and would be determined to prove Jesus wrong but yet when the time came between the temptation of money and Jesus, Judas was too weak to choose Jesus. It’s sad, perhaps he was healthy in the mind and in the body but didn’t have enough exercise of the heart.

I know no better exericse of the heart than to USE IT. Go & spend time with people… especially those who needs God. Love them as Christ has loved you. It’s not reading Christians books, praying at home, or reading the bible. They are good but it’s not going to make a difference unless you go out and obey what you learn from them and do what God is saying. And God in the bible says “Go”.