'God is more relational than simply imparting spiritual maturity to His children in a snap. He instead invites us to participate with Him toward an end of Christlikeness.' - Kelly Minter
I had a moment of irony while writing this article. My morning had gotten off to a late start. I hadn’t slept well and thus slept too long. My alarm tore me out of a deep sleep. I glanced at the clock, and without having lived a conscious moment of the day I was already . . .. I pressed my coffee, packed my lunch, stuffed all my books into my backpack, and raced out of the house to the office. Writing this article was on the top of my list among multiple other tasks.
One of my hopes for this study is that you will find the spiritual disciplines to be liberating instead of cumbersome. We naturally think that piling on another activity will only burden us further, yet practicing the disciplines daily reminds us that it’s God we submit to, not life’s relentless demands. This will require some effort on our part but anything of value typically does.
So often, though, we don’t know how to participate with Him or where to begin on this journey. We hope to achieve spiritual maturity the way Elisha scooped up Elijah’s mantle that had literally fallen out of the sky. But when we go to Scripture, when we go to church history, we see that God invites our effort, our activity, our doing certain things in order to participate in our transformation. I fear that in our desire to rightly emphasize a godly posture of.
So, there are times and places for each of the disciplines. Some will be daily habits, such as Bible study, meditation, prayer, and worship. Others will be practiced at special times or in certain seasons, like when we fast, serve on a mission trip, or enter into solitude. Most of the spiritual disciplines are so closely related it’s hard to know where one stops and the other begins.
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