I just finished an hour of weight lifting and am totally wiped out. I have been lifting for an hour every other day. I am using a program that keeps track of everything on my phone and automatically increases the weight on the bar by five pounds if I successfully lift today’s designated weight. Back when I started, it was easy, but now it is getting harder and harder for an old wimpy guy like me.  There are six different lifts, and I alternate three on one day and the other on the next day. You might wonder why I am doing this self-torture. I am going on a ten-day fishing trip out of San Diego at the end of October.

We will live on the boat and travel a fair distance to catch bluefin tuna. I have been watching YouTube videos of previous trips, getting all excited about going. I have noticed on the videos that several overweight guys and older guys struggle reeling in those hundred-pound-plus fish and often have to get help from one of the deckhands. I am determined that I am going to reel in all of my own fish. I have also noticed several guys quit and enter the lounge after catching a fish or two; they are all tuckered out. That won’t be me; I will fish as long as anybody else is fishing. I have 43 more days before we leave for the trip, so with a five-pound increase each time I lift, I should be ready for those monster tuna. The boat has a record of a tuna weighing over 400 pounds. I don’t expect I will catch anything that big, but I will be ready if I do. The basic principle in weight training is just a little bit more. That is the same principle the Bible discusses in our spiritual growth, just a little more every day. The key is faithfulness; don’t miss a day, or you will miss another, and then more and more, and then you are plateaued in your spiritual growth, and someone will have to reel in your fish for you. How sad!