Christian spiritual discipline comes with challenges. In the practice of these disciplines, we encounter the truest parts of ourselves, however beautiful or ugly they may be, and do it all in the living and loving presence of God.
Disciplines are a means of living a Jesus-like life.
In my life, and likely in yours, we are not always aware of the burdens upon us. But we are aware that we want to escape them. What I wonder is whether this is us exhibiting a longing for Sabbath.
Is it built into our God-imaging nature, Christian or not? Even if we aren’t observing a formal Sabbath, is our need for it still evident when we are looking for a way to get away from our burdens?
I think it is.
We love those bootstraps, don’t we? Where does that expression come from anyway? Have you ever actually tried to pick yourself up by your shoelaces? It doesn’t work. At all. Why do we do that?
What’s been shaken up in your life? What has you off balance? To what degree? Are you still walking straight? Little wobbly? Clinging to the side rails? Hanging on for dear life? Completely disoriented without knowing which way is up?
It is interesting to me that there was even something for God to learn when he lived as a man, and that he learned it through suffering.
Restore our fortunes, Lord , like watercourses in the Negev. Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. Though one goes along…
Last time, we talked about what and how to ask when we go before the Father. Today I want to wrap up our ASK series…
Welcome back to Roots & Light! I am so pleased you’ve decided to join us for this series on Fear. This is post three of…
When I speak of being the master of our fear, I do not mean that we stifle the fear, pushing it down and pretending it’s not there. That’s unhealthy. I mean that we are the authority over it. We run it. It doesn’t run us. The fear is there, whether we like it or not. It’s what we do with it that makes the difference.
