Sometimes doing good yields bad results. At those times make sure your good and God’s good are the same.

So I recently wrote about my return to the things that I once loved, one of the things I returned to…working out. Hahaha. I started with running. Then one day I heard my friend “double time” (aka. Cheryl, those who have been reading my blog for a while know why I call her double time… DAY 99 April 9 2013), started talking about palates. Sounded like fun (she could make having a tooth pulled sound like the greatest experience EVER). So on my none run days I added palates to my routine. Yesterday I had an epiphany. I could do it all in the same day! (Mmmm…yeah). So this morning I woke up at 5:45 am and did 45 minutes of pure palates. All day at work any movement that required my abs felt like someone was punching me in the gut. What should I do to make it go away? Oh, I know I’ll just run when I get home (clearly I am mad at myself). When I got home I changed and went running for 30 minutes (it was a gorgeous evening out), after my run I decided what’s a little ab workout gonna hurt. it would be the perfect way to finish up my day (can we say baaaad idea)… Right about now you’re thinking is this gonna lead to a point? It is I promise. What’s my point? Everything I did today was good for me. Palates, running, and the ab workout none of it was bad. None of it was wrong. However, right about now it hurts to breath (not an exaggeration). Here’s the lesson: just because something is good, does not mean it is right (or for that time). Some of my workout could have been saved for tomorrow (or another day), but in my desire to take care of myself, I took care of myself a little too well ;). There will be days when we do “good”, but get “bad” results. Does that mean don’t do good? No. Sometimes it just means it wasn’t time, or it wasn’t ours to do. So check your heart, check with God. Make sure the good you want to do is His will for you. The “how” and the “when” of good, it’s just as important. So do good, but make sure it’s God’s absolute good, and not just our personal desire. “Trust in the LORD and do good; Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness” (Psalm 37:3). So what’s the plan? Do God’s good.