A definition can change my life

As I sat down to write today, I honestly had nothing.  I wasn’t even going to write anything, until my new number one fan asked me if I was going to blog.  So I sat there debating on whether or not I was going to.  I just wasn’t “feeling” it today, I am just tired and wanted to get through the night as quickly and with as little effort as possible.  Then I felt that I needed to be obedient to do it.  Of course I was then trying to quickly come up with something to write about, but nothing.  It wasn’t until I actually starting to just type something that the Lord hit me with one word, DISCIPLINE.  My first reaction to that word, ugh!  I have always viewed discipline as some sort of punishment.  The Lord led me to look up the definition. 

Discipline is defined as training to act in accordance with rules or activity, exercise, or a regimen that develops or improves a skill.  Like I said before, I looked at discipline as punishment, not as something that is for my own good.  Once again I am blown away with how quickly the Lord has changed my outlook on my whole life with just one simple revelation for just one word.  This is true to form as the Lord is continuously redefining so many things for me.  Although, I guess if I was not aware of the true definition in the first place, the Lord is leading me to truth versus redefinition.  He is helping me to seek out what I have just accepted for so long.  And also true to form my assumptions were not at all correct.  I was not looking at discipline in the right light.  I was simply accepting discipline as I am suppose to as a good Christian. 

So for me today, discipline looks like me sitting at the computer willing to write something, because the Lord has told me to do so.  In doing this I am improving my skill and acting in accordance with rules.  Through this discipline that Lord once again has been faithful to come through for me.  He has given me something to say and a whole new outlook on a word that I have heard so much.  And I am in awe!