“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known.” 1 Corinthians 13:12
As good as a reflection can be it is always a diminished image effected by so many factors such as the brightness of the light and the imperfections on surfaces…
” Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I buffet my body and make it may slave, lest possibly, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.” 1Cor. 9:25-26
It doesn’t take much to see the obsession with physical fitness…
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts upon them, may be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and burst against that house: and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.” Matt. 7:24-
President Theodore Roosevelt said: “When you educate a man in mind and not morals, you educate a menace to society…”