Joseph of Arimathea pulled a corpse off a cross with his bare hands.
Blood under his fingernails. The weight of a dead man sagging into his arms.
He wrapped God in linen, pressed the fabric into wounds that were still wet.
Nicodemus brought seventy-five pounds of burial spice. A king's funeral for a man the world just murdered.
They carried Him into a hole in the rock and rolled the stone shut.
And everything you've ever done went in with Him.
Every night you can't sleep because of what you did. Every morning, you can't look in the mirror. The thing you did to her. The thing you did to them. The
lie you've been carrying so long it feels like bone.
The version of you that drinks alone and pretends tomorrow will be different.
That man was buried with Christ.
Stone sealed. Done.
Not managed. Not in therapy. Not on a payment plan with God where you slowly earn your way back. Buried. In a tomb. Under rock. Gone.
Three days of silence. Three days of a cold body in the dark.
Then the stone moved.
And when He walked out, the grave clothes were folded on the slab. He didn't stumble out tangled in death. He left it sitting there like a man who's done
with the clothes he used to wear.
Lazarus needed someone to unwrap him. Death still clung to him even after he was breathing.
Jesus folded His own burial linen and walked out clean.
That's the difference between religion and resurrection. Religion unwraps you slowly. Asks you to manage your sin. Attend the class. Read the book. Try harder next week.
Resurrection says the man who walked into that tomb is dead. The man who walked out doesn't know him.
You're not fixing the old you. The old you is in a sealed tomb in Jerusalem, and he's not coming back.
The man reading this, the one who thinks he's too far gone, you're not too far. You're already buried. The funeral happened two thousand years
ago.
Now get up. The stone's already moved. The linen's already folded.
Walk out.
When the Father sees us, he sees his Son. Period. Full stop. He doesn't see a glowing success or an embarrassing failure. He sees Jesus. “You have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Col. 3:3). And there's no safer hiding place to be.
"What if I only have 30 minutes a week to exercise?"
30 minutes a week?!
My advice...
Spend it planning your escape from whatever god-awful prison you're currently living in.
@Alan_Couzens Serious question because I jostle back and forth on high versus low carb. If metabolizing fat for energy comes at a higher cost in terms of O2 versus carbs then why is it adventageous? TIA for your reply.
Energy systems are not on/off switches.
Things don't magically change the moment you cross into another 'zone.'
This is one of the biggest misconceptions in endurance training.
@DrJesseMorse Serious question. How do you operate if you have stopped taking insurance? Are your patients simply self pay? Do you tell them how much you'll do something for and then they agree and pay or not?
@RGIII My simple answer is this team needs to be gutted because it has a certain DNA that needs to be decoded and rebuilt. The 3 strongest factors determining a team's DNA are its GM, head coach and QB.
@mou55981652 Serious question. How is he becoming so fat adapted if he is fueling with high carbs? Wouldn't that turn his fat metabolism down as his body would rather the easy source of energy?
In UCI Women Gravel worlds final we got Yara Kastelijn (NED) closing on Shirin van Anrooij (NED) so that Lorena Wiebes (NED) can win the sprint vs Vos (NED)
What the hell
Please, please make your kids sleep.
Focus on it. Demonstrate it. Prioritize it.
Our kids and teens are collapsing under a never-before-in-human-history lack of sleep.
Cancel things on the calendar.
Slow down.
Hang out with your kids.
Be bored.
Prioritize your kids and teens sleep.
At least love them that much.
Delony