The person who intends to will what God wills begins with what God has said He wills.
Disciplines make room for the Word and the Spirit to workin in us. They permit destructive feelings (veiled by standard excuses and accepted practices) to be perceived and dealt with as our will rather than God's will.
posted by TK at 5:46 PM
Welcome to our online discussion of Dallas Willard and Jan Johnson's Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation. Each day, Monday-Friday, I will post the title of that day's chapter and maybe an excerpt from the chapter. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to read that day's selection from the book then click on the comment link and add your $.02 to the conversation. If you are a highlighter maybe just share what you highlighted and why you highlighted it. Maybe something really resonated with you as you tackled that day's experiment, share that with us. Maybe, as happened with me, the first time I read the book, God will reveal something to you. Read the comments that others leave, respond to each other, ask for clarification, let someone know you connected with a comment they left. My hope is that working through this book together we will get much more out of it, we might not only grow in Christlikeness but grow closer to each other. If you have any technical difficulties please email me at tkay3atcharterdotnet.
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"Our extreme busyness may be revealed as inability to trust God..." Dallas Willard get out of my head.
I just heard someone say that in reality busyness is laziness in disguise. The meaning is that I am too lazy to do the hard stuff God requires or wants to do so I busy myself with busyness.
Discipline is something that I have been working at by doing this book Renovation it forces me to read everyday the word of God. I was also asked to read a passage everyday 2 peter 1:5-9 and I have been doing that as well. But there are other parts of discipline that I need to work at one is making time for ME by doing whats rite for me go for walks, go to the gym, and I need to learn how to prioritze things in my life so my days are not so full of busyness.
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