Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:7-8
Journal: What specific ways are you training yourself each day for the purpose
of godliness?
Reflection: So while I write to teach, to add to our knowledge, my ultimate aim is to change our practice radically. This book is a plea for the Christian community to place the disciplines for the spiritual life at the heart of the gospel. When we call men and women to life in Christ Jesus, we are offering them the greatest opportunity of their lives—the opportunity of a vivid companionship with him, in which they will learn to be like him and live as he lived. This is the “transforming friendship” explained by Leslie Weatherhead. We meet and dwell with Jesus and his Father in the disciplines for the spiritual life.
Our meeting place, the
disciplines are part of the good news of new life. We should practice them and then invite
others to join us there.
I want us to take the
disciplines that seriously. I want to
inspire Christianity today to remove the disciplines from the category of
historical curiosities and place them at the center of the new life in
Christ. Only when we do, can Christ’s
community take its stand at the present point of history. Our local assemblies must become academies of
life as it was meant to be. (The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas
Willard)
Prayer
Closing
Prayer:
I ask you, Lord Jesus,
to develop in me, your lover
an immeasurable urge towards you,
an affection that is unbounded,
longing that is unrestrained,
fervor that throws discretion to the winds!
The more worthwhile our love for you,
all the more pressing
does it become.
Reason cannot hold it in check,
fear does not make it
tremble,
wise judgment does not
temper it.
—The Fire of Love by Richard Rolle
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