It is possible to be overweight spiritually: groggy, sluggish. Perhaps we need to work out on the weights or to start jogging. The story goes that when a man was asked how he was feeling, he answered: "I just feel medium." "What do you mean by medium?" "Well, I feel worse than I felt yesterday; but not nearly as bad as I’m going to feel tomorrow." Or it’s like an old song I heard last night: "I’m down in the depths on the ninetieth floor." These people need some spiritual calisthenics.

Even Paul admitted that he had a problem: "For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil that I would not, that I do." Paul, in his spiritual despair, cries out: "O, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" Then Paul finds victory: "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lo…