When I heard this discipline title "RULE for Life" I immediately thought about legalism. Remember the Pharisees and Sadducees of the New Testament? They made up rules that God never stated in the Bible. Rules governing tradition, behavior, food, clothing, gender, age, politics, wealth and anything else they could dream up to puff themselves up with power stolen from the God they had all-but forgotten.

How do we position ourselves closer to God? How do we live out his will for our lives? Creating a Rhythm for Life can help us to determine both where we are going and what we need to do to get there, intentionally. Determine your destination and live a life that helps you to get there on purpose.

RESOURCES ON A RHYTHM FOR LIFE

Living with Contradiction by Esther de Wall

The Rule of St. Benedict

Soul Feast by Marjorie Thompson

Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, 23:18:08 Z/70999?len=9920" target="_blank">Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us, Revised and expanded. (Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2015), 37–41.

Grenz, Stanley, David Guretzki, and Cherith Fee Nordling, 17:59:06 Z/147409?len=821" target="_blank">Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 71–72.