THE SCENE: 23 and perfect gloom
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Yep, yep, and yep.
WARM-O-RAMA:
1. 8 Project Motivators – IC
2. 15 SSH – 4ct, IC
3. 15 Tempo Squat – 4ct, IC
4. 10 Iron Mikes (each leg, 2 ct) – OYO
5. 10 Arm Circles (both directions)
6. 10 Overhead Clap – IC
7. 8 Tempo Merkins – 4ct, IC
8. 5 Cherry Pickers – 4 ct, IC
9. Pick up CMU, mosey to Friendship Bell
THA-THANG:
CMU Work @Friendship Bell: 20 bicep curls, 20 overhead press, 20 tricep extensions, 20 squats, 20 BBS w/CMU (2 ROUNDS) – Take CMUs, mosey to K-2(5)
Doras @K-25: Partner 1 starts on 50 Blockees, 75 BBS, 100 Derkins, 200 squats (w/CMU) while Partner 2 starts on Sprints WITHOUT CMU up the hill. Switch off with partner until rep count is complete. Mosey back to Shovel Flag. Whew!
NO MARY
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
3 AMIGOS: Mathlete, Slappy, and me, Snaggletooth.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
God, Touch Our Hearts (John Piper)
Saul went to his house at Gibeah; and the valiant men whose hearts God had touched went with him. (1 Samuel 10:26)
Just think of what is being said in this verse. God touched them. Not a wife. Not a child. Not a parent. Not a counselor. But God.
The One with infinite power in the universe. The One with infinite authority and infinite wisdom and infinite love and infinite goodness and infinite purity and infinite justice. That One touched their heart.
How does the circumference of Jupiter touch the edge of a molecule? Let alone penetrate to its nucleus?
The touch of God is awesome because it is a touch. It is a real connection. That it involves the heart is awesome. That it involves God is awesome. And that it involves an actual touch is awesome.
The valiant men were not just spoken to. They were not just swayed by a divine influence. They were not just seen and known. God, with infinite condescension, touched their heart. God was that close. And they were not consumed.
I love that touch. I want it more and more. For myself and for all of you. I pray that God would touch me anew for his glory. I pray that he would touch us all.
O for the touch of God! If it comes with fire, so be it. If it comes with water so be it. If it comes with wind, let it come, O God. If it comes with thunder and lightning, let us bow before it.
O Lord, come. Come that close. Burn and soak and blow and crash. Or still and small, come. Come all the way. Touch our hearts.
MOLESKIN:
This Q and BOM/COT were originally from January of this year and it remains as true to speaking to my heart as it did pre-COVID at the beginning of the year – not because I have not changed but because God is wrought this in my life even more this year.
January 2020: “There is something about the phrase “the valiant men whose hearts God had touched” that inspires me, and rouses a hunger in me. I have found myself in this new year hungrier for a deeper, more powerful, intimate closeness with God. I believe it’s the natural consequence of F3 and my purity group, and what God is doing in my family and church. At the beginning of the year, I felt God give me the word FOCUS. Makes me wonder about what this year will be like. Whatever else 2020 may bring, this hunger for greater friendship with God is a worthy and holy pursuit.”
Who knew what the year would have brought except God Himself?!