The 21 Day Challenge

I have been teaching a women’s Bible study called “The Moving Company” for eight years.  The Moving Company is all about “getting from where we are to where God wants us to be.”  Thus, the name.  

Last week at The Moving Company, I confessed my neglect of habitually practicing some of the Spiritual Disciplines for many months now. I shared that I sense the Lord beckoning me to exercise some self-discipline in re-creating the habit of daily time with Him, quality and quantity. So, after teaching from Luke 24 about the two who walked on the Emmaus road with Jesus, and yet did not recognize Him until he broke the bread, gave thanks and their eyes were opened, I offered a small challenge to The Moving Company girls.  On the basis of Luke 24:32, I challenged them to make one change in regard to the Spiritual Disciplines of Prayer and personal Bible Study (reading/meditating) over the following two weeks. 

Not wanting to challenge anyone to do anything without doing it myself, I renewed my commitment to spend time with God every day for three weeks as experts say it takes 21 days to form a new habit.  (I asked the girls for two weeks because The Moving Company meets every two weeks.)  I've decided to post my journal on each of those 21 days here on my blog. There is no promise of anything profound, just simple truths from His Word that lighten my load, renew my mind and move me toward transformation in my heart, and life. I will return to Day 1 which was Thursday, March 17, 2011 and add the journal entries prior to today. 

Here's to a new habit and prayerfully, a changed life ....

Luke 24:32 

“They asked each other,

‘Were not our hearts burning within us while

he talked with us on the road
and opened the Scriptures to us?’”  

(italics mine)