In the Eastern Orthodox monasticism the idea of discipline and self discipline is very important. I do not recomend or support monasticism. It is more than obvious that God wants His children among the world and not in the wildereness. But we can get some good examples from certain areas of Christianity.
Well as said discipline is very essential to monks. The monasteries have stict schedules about time for prayers, time for liturgy, time for work, time for sleep and so on. That program almost never changes and monks keep it day after day for years and years. Also monks who live in individual houses (are not members of a monastery) also have a program that they follow every day and sometimes for their whole lifetime. Discipline and self discipline are very essential to those people.
In a similar way it is good for a christian to have a daily program which they should follow. A schedule for specific time for reading the Bible, time for praying, time for going to the church and so on and keep that daily program, if of course this is possible. It is not good to be loose. It is not good to pray when we feel like it and not pray if we don't feel like it, read our Bible when we feel like doing it and not read it when we don't feel like doing it. The later will not help us at all. A daily program will prevent us from getting far from God.
1 Cor 10:24-27,
"24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway."
In the Eastern Orthodox monasticism the idea of discipline and self discipline is very important. I do not recomend or support monasticism. It is more than obvious that God wants His children among the world and not in the wildereness. But we can get some good examples from certain areas of Christianity.
Well as said discipline is very essential to monks. The monasteries have stict schedules about time for prayers, time for liturgy, time for work, time for sleep and so on. That program almost never changes and monks keep it day after day for years and years. Also monks who live in individual houses (are not members of a monastery) also have a program that they follow every day and sometimes for their whole lifetime. Discipline and self discipline are very essential to those people.
In a similar way it is good for a christian to have a daily program which they should follow. A schedule for specific time for reading the Bible, time for praying, time for going to the church and so on and keep that daily program, if of course this is possible. It is not good to be loose. It is not good to pray when we feel like it and not pray if we don't feel like it, read our Bible when we feel like doing it and not read it when we don't feel like doing it. The later will not help us at all. A daily program will prevent us from getting far from God.
1 Cor 10:24-27,
"24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway."
Blessings.
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