Train Naked

Train Naked

Yes, you heard me right. And now that I have your attention..let me explain.

I love it when God’s word takes me to a deeper understanding of what He is doing in my life. I am so excited to tell you that Revelation Wellness, the ministry, and Revelation Fitness, the workout class, is all about exercising, without clothes. Training naked!

Recently, I have been in a space of awe over what God has done in my life. He has been faithful, when all I was, was faithful to complain. He allowed me to bang on his chest and kick and scream over the things that I felt he should do for me, IF he was a good God. IF he loved me, then surely he would come through on my good desires. It’s not like I was asking to start a crack farm of anything.

I have grabbed God by the lapels of his royal coat, demanding my whole and complete life from Him. Who am I to do such a thing? I am a recovering addict who has seen the goodness of her God in the land of the living.That’s who I am.

I wasn’t addicted to things the world would point, stare and label as dirty and uncouth. I was addicted to the quiet seductive loves of this world; relationship, power and possession. In my mind if I acquired these articles of clothing,I would be well dressed and received by the world.

They are all lies.  And they all came crashing down over 12 years ago.

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been TRAINED by it. – Hebrews 12:11

God has been disciplining me all these years. Training me through his loving redirect and realignment cues. He has allowed me to taste the bread of adversity knowing I would turn to him and be healed.

I had a choice. I could spend my life cursing and blaming God for the unhealthy childhood he allowed for me – setting me up for an unhealthy pursuit of love, power and possession in adulthood. OR I could see it ALL as his perfect training plan for my life, knowing that he planted something special in me; a holy and stubborn tenacity for what is true, noble and praiseworthy. He saw something in me, on the other side of the pain.

In Hebrews 12:2, the word “trained” in the Greek, is gymanso. It’s where the word gymnasium comes from. It means “to exercise naked, a metaphor for open and lay bare.”

(Raise your hand if you have disturbing images of naked people running on a treadmill in your head. Yah..me too. But I digress.)

All these years, God was disciplining me; taking out the things in my heart that I desired MORE than him. He was taking out all my “If only’s”. You know those “If only I had ____ then I would be complete. If only I was _____ then I would be complete. If only someone, with flesh on them, would love me completely, then I would be whole.” And as he was disciplining me he was asking me to train with him. To come before him with nothing, even requesting nothing because I had already received everything..Him.

As much as I wanted to run for cover, and throw on my protective gear of love, power and possession, he kept asking me to train naked. To lay myself bare before him. Just like Jesus did on the cross. (By the way, you know that loin cloth that we see Jesus depicted wearing on the cross? According to most biblical scholars, Jesus did not have a loin cloth on when he was crucified.It is historically, more likely and accurate, that Jesus was crucified naked.)

Jesus, with great sorrow, to the point of death (Matthew 26:38), stripped off the last of his protective gear and crawled up on the cross for you and me. He did it so both you and I could crawl up on his lap, beat on his chest and demand a new life.

This is why I love what God is allowing Revelation Wellness to be to the world. A place where all people are asked to strip off their clothes, be trained and remain faithful to the process; BELIEVING there will be results whether they see it or feel it at the present time.

Today I am on the other side of the process in SOME of the areas of my life, but not all. The best spiritual athletes will focus more on the results than on the process.

And they won’t wear any clothes.

Feel free to give me the proverbial knuckles, high five or fist pump below by commenting.

Peace friends,

Alisa Keeton

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