"He continued to pray just as he had always done."
Daniel 6:10
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Silence, Stillness, and Centering before God (2 minutes)
Scripture Reading: Acts 2:42-47
They
devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to
the
breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at
the many wonders and
signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together
and had everything
in common.They sold property and possessions to give to anyone
who had need. Every
day
they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke
bread in their
homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God
and enjoying the favor of
all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those
who were being
saved.
Devotional
My
central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing—by following him
in the
overall style
of life
he chose
for himself.
If we
have faith
in Christ, we must believe that he knew how to live. We can, through
faith and grace, become like Christ
by practicing the types of activities he engaged in,
by arranging our whole lives around the activities he himself practiced
in order to remain constantly at home
in the fellowship of his Father.
What
activities did Jesus practice? Such things as solitude and silence,
prayer, simple and sacrificial living, intense study and meditation upon
God’s Word and God’s ways, and
service to others. Some of these will certainly be even
more necessary to us than they were to him, because of our greater or
different need. . . .
.
. . . So,
if we wish to follow Christ—and to walk in the easy yoke with him—we will have to
accept his overall way of life as our way of life totally. Then,
and only then, we may reasonably expect to know by experience how easy is
the yoke and how light the
burden.80
—Dallas
WillardQuestions to Consider
way they sought to follow the life of Jesus?
Prayer
Lord,
you say your yoke is easy and your burden is light (Matt. 11:30), yet
the life I live often feels hard and heavy to me. Show me the activities, decisions, priorities, and
relationships that are not what you want for me today. I submit my life to your lordship and
ways this day. In your name, amen.
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