BE STRONGWhat is genuine strength?Is it a personal best bench, squat, and body builder physique?Is it crazy feats of athleticism like captain America curling a helicopter?Or is it more versatile?In our final, brief analysis of the rules for the middle school life group, we have the rule, “BE STRONG”Strength is often associated with the capacity to bear a certain amount of weight or burden depending upon its direct context. This said, that means strength has differing applications. Then it stands, a proper definition or layout of strength will be all encompassing in concept and in application.Simply put, strength was broken down in the group as follows:1.Be strong physically 2.Be strong mentally 3.Be strong emotionally 4.Be strong relationally 5.Be strong spiritually Notice the pattern of process with regards to each of these domains and utilize it to analyze what it would truly mean to be strong in all the areas listed.While strength means more than merely physical capability, it is no less of a necessity to pursue the maximization of one’s physical potential. We are dualistic beings whose bodies affect the state of our minds, emotions, relationships, and our spiritual state. They are inextricably linked as a representation of the physical representing the intangible.Therefore, in the same way that one may have a training regiment to achieve physical mastery, so one must cultivate protocols for each of the other aspects of true strength.This week then, use the aforementioned list as a means of developing daily habitual practices to ask, cultivate, and actively train true strength and fortitude in yourself. Make your body strong. Push your mental limits. Regulate your emotions and deal with the source of those vexations. Restore broken relationships and make amends as much as depends upon you and fortify your direct community. Ask God reinvigorate your faith and zeal for what is right and true and practice spiritual disciplines to pursue devotion.To be strong we must know our current weakness. Accept it for what it truly is. Then pursue with all of our might the cultivation of steady, but assured progress to become those who can take more on for ourselves, others around us, and for those who are to come.