This week I was struck by
something a friend, Scott, wrote on Facebook. It has stayed with me ever since,
has really got under my skin. He wrote:
“Your disciplines reveal to
whom/what you are a disciple.
Your disciplines reveal to
whom/what you are a disciple.
If it is my discipline – my prioritised, habitual, life-shaping practice
– to go out every pay day and buy something that I do not need just because it
is new – I am not speaking here of the very real need of many to shop for
necessities or pay bills on pay day – then I am a disciple of the advertising
industry.
If it is my discipline to
replace my iPhone – and again, this is a hypothetical example – every time a
new version is released, then I am a disciple of Apple.
If it is my discipline to read
only one particular newspaper, of whatever persuasion, and to accept everything
I read in it to be true, then I am a disciple of the media mogul who owns that
paper.
If it is my discipline to
watch a particular tv soap, religiously, then I am a disciple of the
script-writer.
Disciplines are not necessarily unpleasant at the time –
though they demand something, of time or money or effort. Disciplines can be
comforting, providing structure within which life can be enjoyed; can be enjoyable.
What are the disciplines of
your life?
Whom/what do they reveal you
to be a disciple of?
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