When I was young I played sports constantly. Whether at home or school or with a team, I was actively participating in sports. I can no longer do the same activities, but I am trying to keep fit. As I have mentioned before, I walk about 10 miles per day. I enjoy being outside and especially communing with God in His creation. While walking I spend a lot of the time praying, worshipping, and listening. It is also important to keep spiritually strong and healthy.
The writer of the book of Hebrews uses the analogy of physical strength to illustrate how to stay strong spiritually. He wrote, “Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.”
Lifting hands describes worship. So the writer is encouraging us to strengthen our worship muscles by continually worshipping the Father. Strengthening knees refers to prayer. The encouragement is to frequently pray and thereby strengthening your prayer muscles. And preparing straight paths for your feet instructs us to walk in righteousness, the path God has made for us. These righteous paths keep us from injury and heal previous injuries. There is so much more instruction that the writer could have included here, but strengthening our personal worship, prayer, and walking in righteousness will go a long way to making us spiritually strong and healthy.
Reluctant Retiree 