Day 340- What are you practicing?
📖Daily Reading
1 John 2-3
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📝 Reflection
1 John 3: 9
“Those who have been born into God’s family do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of God.”
Practice: the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it.
Many people think that thinking and being in agreement with ideas means that they are practicing. But as defined above, practice earns that your are actually applying or using the knowledge. In other words practice is the engaging of doing. So those that claim to believe in God and in living by his principles will begin practicing these ideas vs the practice of living their old ways.
What I am going to say next may challenge you and make you mad. How you spend your time reflects what is in your heart. For example many people say that spending time with their families is a top priority but if you look at their calendar, you will see a different story. Many say that their health is a priority but their pantry and how they spend their money and time may tell a very different story.
Living with thoughts of desiring to be one way and then doing things that are contrary to this knowledge and desire is painful. It causes what is referred to as cognitive dissonance. We think one way and then practice another way. I am not trying to make you feel bad. I know how painful it is to live this way. I did it for a looonnng time! Change is hard for humans.
God in his glorious design put systems and hardwiring in place that loves to put as much as possible in our lives on autopilot. This is a beautiful thing, but we can install malware into this system by adopting practices and habits that are not in support of our long term health and well being. But the good news is that with practice the better choices we can and do change! Practice makes progress.
The other thing that I have noticed is that for many of us ‘adults’ we have this crazy idea that we should just be good at everything. We hate to be new at something or feel or look incompetent. This is a really big problem. So we resist the very thing we need to embrace. In the Bible we are encouraged repeatedly to be childlike in our faith. Kids are not afraid to be new at something and embrace the challenge of learning. They don’t take it personally and berate themselves on what a failure they are for not knowing it all. They are excited and open vessels.
Can you imagine a toddler that expected to just walk perfectly the first time and expected to even be skilled enough to run right away? Can you imagine a toddler berating themselves and feeling guilt and shame over not being able to ‘get it’ right away? Sounds kind of silly when you put it that way right? And yet we ‘adults’ do it all the time. I am intentionally putting ‘’ marks around the word adult, because many of us are adults only in age. We are big babies walking around with unrealistic expectations.
This process of unrealistic expectations of performance is often referred to as a fixed mindset. God invites us to have a growth mindset. God did not make robots, he made humans in his image. God is not fixed, static, broken or limited and neither are you! We are walking miracles full of possibility and growth. Get yourself practicing love, growth and possibility.
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
What are you practicing? Are you just thinking but not doing? Being in agreement with what you think you would like to do but not doing it? What does your calendar, bank account, health, and energy level have to say about what you practice?
📖Tomorrows Reading
1 John 4
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