The Spiritual Disciplines are God’s means of grace by which we are enabled to bring our little, individualized power pack we call the human body and place it before God as a “living sacrifice,” as the wise apostle Paul put it (Rom. 12:1).
Having done this, the Disciplines have reached the end of their tether. God then steps into our small offering and produces in us graces and virtues we could hardly imagine. Again, the Spiritual Disciplines are the means God uses to build in us an inner person that is characterized by peace and joy and freedom. It is critical for us to understand that the Spiritual Disciplines possess no moral rectitude or righteousness in and of themselves. They are, most definitely, not “works righteousness,” as it is sometimes said.
They place us—body, mind, and spirit—before God. That is all. The results of this process are all of God, all of grace. Now, the opposite of grace is “works.” Works has to do with earning, and there simply is nothing we can ever do to earn God’s approval. Or God’s love.
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