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Healthy Christianity clearly appreciates the life of the mind. Love God “with all your mind,” says Jesus (Matt. 22:37).

But we need to know more than what contentment is; we need to know how to learn it and practice it.

Train yourself to be godly.

1 TIMOTHY 4:7

Gymnasticize yourself for the purpose of godliness

For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value

for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:16).

But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified

But even those women may be neglecting to bring that same discipline to a flabby soul.

Legalism is self-centered; discipline is God-centered.