Supplements for Christians?

Many of the people I’ve trained in the gym have asked about supplements, especially guys wanting to build muscle.

Supplements are just that … an item designed to supply something that is lacking or insufficient.

The body responds best by giving it what it needs as organically as possible. Feed it right, exercise it right, and you will usually have good health and fitness.

But even those who are quite fit lack some needed ingredients in their diets. Because of that, it’s often wise to supplement one’s diet with a daily vitamin and mineral supplement. It helps to round out all that the body needs.

In similar fashion, the heart of the Christian “diet” is faith. But as much as we may nurture and exercise what we believe, simply believing isn’t fully adequate. According to the Apostle Peter, we need to provide some supplements to our faith:

“Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone,” 2 Peter 1:5b-7.

By adding these supplements to our faith, the Apostle Peter says “The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ,” 2 Peter 1:8.

What are you doing to supplement your faith to build a healthy, fit follower of Christ?

Scotty