Disciplines of Life

  • Jeremy Erb
  • Apr 1, 2007
  • Series: Spiritual Disciplines 2007
How do we grow into the type of people that God created us to be and that we truly long to be? The apostle Paul describes the tension that best answers this question when he wrote: So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. Philip. 2:12-13 (NASB-U)
God's grace is what transforms,  but He calls us to participate in that transformation and He provides us with the spiritual disciplines as the avenue of that participation. In Proverbs 3:13-35, we have sound biblical instruction about this process. We see that:


1. Wisdom is to be PREFERRED.
2. Wisdom is to be PONDERED.
3. Wisdom is to be PERSONAL.
4. Wisdom is to be PRACTICED.