Worth It

The race of faith requires discipline. Discipline includes embracing hard circumstances that God sends our way, and also hard choices that we make to fight our own sin. In both cases, we trust that we are God’s beloved children, and he wants to redeem our pain to make us more like himself. Because discipline hurts, we must remember that Jesus always goes before us, trusting his Father’s will to the point of shedding his blood for us.

Some resources on “straightening the path”:

• Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Pete Scazzero
• The Common Rule, Justin Whitmel Early
• Liturgy of the Ordinary, Tish Harrison Warren
• You Are What You Love, James K.A. Smith
• Practicing the Way, John Mark Comer