Day 12: Where Is Your Focus?

Week 2, Friday, January 15

Text: Deuteronomy 6:7-9
“Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.”

Thought for the day:
When you practice spiritual disciplines, you discover that the focus of your daily lives starts to change. You become more acutely aware of God’s presence as you begin to incorporate new habits into your routine. I hope that in these past two weeks, your focus has been sharpened so that you think about God’s will in your daily decisions, or that you see God’s grace in the middle of trying circumstances.

God is always available to His children. He does not change His love towards us when we practice spiritual disciplines. However, our ability to see Him and know His love will change through the practice of focusing on Him.

Journal/Exercise:
Write down one way that the practice of spiritual disciplines has affected you in the past two weeks.