Lenten Love – Part 1
One of the things I love about CrossFit is the universalism of empathy that it promotes. While intensity is relative such that not all people struggle with the SAME load, time, reps, ROM, etc., everyone can appreciate the pain of FRAN who has done it in any capacity. This is what makes the community so strong.
This is also what makes the games athletes so impressive because we can put our fitness capacity up against theirs and humbly recognize the great gap between us and them.
As a programmer and coach, it’s important for me to taste and feel the workouts that we have at RWOL, and I ask the same of our coaches. This drastically improves our ability to lead others through it, help athletes navigate any obstacles, and scale appropriately. It also brings us closer as a community since we are all walking through the same fire and have a shared language.
As a leader, I firmly believe this: You cannot lead someone where you’ve never been or aren’t willing to go yourself. Then it is no longer leadership but becomes dictatorship, and no one loves a know-it-all-bossy-britches.
Hebrews 2:14-18 tells about a leader who lived by the same code of beliefs. Check this out:
14Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had[g]the power of death.15Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.
16We also know that the Son did not come to help angels; he came to help the descendants of Abraham.17Therefore, it was necessary for him to be made in every respect like us, his brothers and sisters,[h]so that he could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God. Then he could offer a sacrifice that would take away the sins of the people.18Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested.
God didn’t just tell us humans, His creation, what we had to do and how we had to live. He is a “ME TOO” kind of God. He came to earth as ONE of us and walked the walk and talked the talk. He became as we are so we could become like He is!
What other god has done that?
What does that say about your creator?
In 2 weeks, we’ll kick off the march to Easter with the beginning of Lent, a 7 week pilgrimage of sacrifice and self-evaluation. This is a journey of restoration through the practice of struggle. As you deny the body, the physical being, what it wants, you will make room for the spirit, the soul, to get what it needs.
Thank God for His leadership and ask God to prepare you for your next growth moment!!! Would you consider taking the next step in pursuing wholeness as you let the gravity of the ME-TOO God sink in?
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Brett
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