 People that are willing to exercise daily in their spiritual life and those that don't. Let's look at some of these metaphors Paul uses to explain the need for spiritual growth in your soul's mentality and why your Christian life requires endurance. In 1 Timothy 4, 7, again, our verse, reject profane and old wives' fables. That's what he told Timothy. And then he said, exercise yourself to godliness. We'll get into what is godliness here in just a minute.