Friday: W18, M2

Training:
Night:
58 min run (easy pace, covered 7 miles)
2 min max pushups: 124 (80 in a row to start off then sets of 10) (PR)
2 min max squats: 118
2 min max 4 count flutter kicks: 87

Notes:
Very pleased with the pushup score. I have found that in order to get a higher score I have to increase my 1 set max and knock out as many as possible right off the bat. Doing high rep sets throughout the work day as breaks has really helped with improving this score. I was hoping to get greater than 120 on the squats. I did not go all the way parallel on some of these so the score is not entirely accurate. Nutrition has been pretty poor this week. Looking to turn that around this weekend. Planning on hunting most of the weekend so will have to get my runs in Saturday and Sunday in the afternoons around the morning and evening hunts.

Daily Reading:
1 Corinthians 5-8

1.) Facts:

• Paul addresses tough issues in the church of Corinth regarding sexual immorality, the laws of marriage and food sacrificed to idols. He speaks on giving up the former ways in which we used to live by fleeing from the sins that formerly entangled us and by not being a stumbling block to those weaker than us. We were washed, sanctified and justified through the blood of Christ. We are to honor God with our bodies.

2.) Lessons:

• 5:6-7 - Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
• 6:9-11 - Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
• 6:18-20 - Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
• 7:19-20 - Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what counts. Each person should remain in the situation they were in when God called them.
• 8:6 - yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
• 8:9-13 - Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.

3.) Applications:

• Honor God with my body. Flee from the temptations that have entangled me in the past. Christ has washed, sanctified and justified me. I was bought at a price. I must realize this and embrace the fact that I am not beholden to my past sins. Christ has set me free, therefore I must honor Him with my body and honor Him by turning from those sins that have had control in the past. 
• I am placed in situations by God and I am called to honor Him in those situations by keeping His commands. 
• I must live my life as if in a glass house. Whether I like it our not my actions are being viewed by others and impact how others live their lives. If my actions lead another to sin than I am being a stumbling block to them and am keeping them from Christ. If this is the case than I am called to change my ways and do what will not cause them to fall. It is a sin to lead others to destruction and to lead others away from Christ. This is something of the utmost importance and is something that that needs work in my life. I must be willing to sacrifice my own wants and desires if they are causing someone else to sin. As a follower of Christ I am called to be different from the world and to live a life worthy of the calling of Christ. My actions either bring others closer to Christ or lead them farther away... Which is it? This is a day by day, minute by minute decision impacting how I live my every day life. 

4.) Daily Meditation:

• 8:9 - do not become a stumbling block to the weak