Inertia

According to Wikipedia inertia is the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force. It's the body at rest, the body not moving, the body ready for movement, it's me and it seems I'm not moving much.

A body at rest tends to stay at rest, a body in motion tends to stay in motion. These are seemingly simple concepts, yet the difficulty arises in knowing when to be at rest and when to be in motion. Sometimes its easy to figure out, a long work out is followed by rest, work six days and rest on the seventh. Those examples are easy ones, we rest with the expectation that we will continue to move, our rest in the present is only so we can move in the future.

I'm training for a 100 mile bike ride June 6th, at least I should be training. I'm letting the lingering grasps of cold weather, keep me from doing what I know I should be doing, I should be pedaling but I'm not. The funny part, I have all the cold weather gear I need to be warm as I ride. The body at rest tends to stay at rest.

So is it lethargy? Romans 7:15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but I do what I hate to do. Paul understood inertia. Paul knew we all know what we should do, he knew we wouldn't do it, and he knew we would hate not doing it. I love timeless truths, you see it's not lethargy it's inertia, the body at rest tends to stay at rest, even when rest is no longer required. That's why we need an external force to come and change our speed, so we begin to move, because a body in motion tends to stay in motion.

We are the Body, and the body is built for movement. Right now is more than just a gap between ice ages, right now is the time for the Body to be in motion, the season of rest will come later, time to move. Time for the cold weather gear.