The T.Rex has really short arms, as seen from the picture above, and what I'm hitting at is that Justice has the same limited reach. My cell phone got stolen last Saturday and I felt even more acutely how helpless we all are when the offense is unanticipated and unseen.
I'm also thinking that our law enforcement is now reduced to tackling domestic disputes and petty mischiefs, and they may have acquired a dangerous contentment.
I disbelief in the low crime rate.
I would think that there is just a low occurence of serious crimes like arson, murder and the like.
Thefts, burglary, fraud happen all the time, and this offsets the assumption that we are a safe and secure society.
It's just that the threats aren't big enough, and the petty crimes that are still offenses don't get much exposure.
Hence I wait for God's righteousness to come again.
Romans 12: 19-21
19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” 20 To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
My favourite exercise in the weights room is the Wide-grip Deadlift.
It hits your upper back, your quadriceps and glutes, and is still largely a deadlift, that works your hips, erector spinae and core. It builds good posture and also the lower body.
It makes you feel like a big, strong man also.
I'm in favour of exercises that recruit more muscle and involve heavy weights, because there is greater potential for growth and increase in strength.
The stimulus is huge; the corresponding growth is huger.
My workouts now strive to always contain the Deadlift and Squat, and even out the Push/Pull movements.
1 Push exercise
1 Pull Exercise
Squat/Deadlift
I've ditched the vanity exercises like bicep curls and the juvenile mistakes I acquired when I started out, and I now feel a mixed pity and scorn for new juveniles who are now making the identical mistakes.
Of course I am no expert in this field and my strength in the measurable exercises are below par. But I still advocate the importance of know-how before we dive into training.
The NIKE maxim of 'Just Do It', is not a license to forgo your good sense and plunge into deep water, but a reminder for people who know what they're getting into and as a result have good reasons to have reservations.
But now I'm overhauling my position, and believe that time-effective and hard training although is great, but it will be severely undermined, if we have lousy recovery (sleep and rest) and shoddy nutrition (eating habits).
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While I am still learning and studying Scripture, it came to me even more startlingly that I belong to Christ wholely, because He has redeemed me.
Christ's ownership of me is total, and there can be no personal ambition or interest that I withhold from Him. I must submit all my thinking, doing and saying to Him and only do what is acceptable and pleasing.
C.S Lewis says this,
The almost impossibly hard thing is to hand over your whole self to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves"-our personal happiness centred on money or pleasure or ambition-and hoping, despite this, to behave honestly and chastely and humbly. And that is exactly what Christ warned us you cannot do. If I am a grass field-all the cutting will keep the grass less but won't produce wheat. If I want wheat...I must be plowed up and re-sown.
