How is my core strength, I mean my spiritual core stregth?

Over the past several years people who are fit and athletes often refer to their core strength as being critical to their overall strength and fitness. So what is it, what is core strength?

Core muscles are referred to as the muscles forming around and the trunk of the body including the abdominal, oblique, mid and lower back. Most of the muscles that make up the core are deep muscles, not surface muscles. The core muscles are responsible for many of the things we take for granted in everyday living. The only time your core muscles are completely relaxed is when you are laying on your back in a relaxed position.

It would seem to me that just as our bodies rely on our core physical strength, so too our mental and emotional state must rely on a core strength. So just where should that mental and emotional strength come from. I would suggest that it needs to come from our relationship with our saviour and the helper that he promised us, that helper that is seldom talked about in today's church.

John 14:15-17 (http://www.biblegateway.com)

New International Version (NIV)

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ “If you love me, keep my commands. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be^[a] in you.

Are we working on our core spiritual strength by spending time with our Jesus in prayer, by reading his word, by allowing the Holy Spirit to guide us. Have we developed these spiritual muscles deep within us so that they fire automatically just as our core physical muscles do?

How am I doing with this, regrettably not so good some days, how are you doing with this?

How often do you go to Gods gym?