Walking? Okay, maybe lifting weights.
Hmmm . . . Those were my best guesses as I started listening to the Freakonomics podcast, “The Best Exercise For You.” Surely it has got to be one of those. This podcast was incredibly entertaining partly because of the building anticipation on whether my guesses where going to be confirmed as right (they weren’t).
The more I thought on this question, I realized they might be right if your goal is to live a long life, but is this the best exercise from an eternal perspective? The apostle Paul reminds us that “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” (1 Timothy 4:8). In that light, I think the following exercise might arguably be one of the best, not just for our earthly body but for our soul.