Daily Spiritual Challenge

¹ Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. ² Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, ³ now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.- 1 Peter 2:1-3


Over the past couple of months I have been participating in the "Daily Challenge" from MeYouHealth.  If you aren't familiar with it, MeYouHealth is a company that creates applications and challenges that promote healthy living.  They encourage you to make small changes for the better every day that promote good physical and emotional health.  Each day they send you an email with a simple challenge for that day.  Some that I have done are:  "Add a green leafy vegetable to one of your meals today."  "Switch your usual snack for a piece of food."  They often have simple stretching exercises as the challenge.  Some of the emotional health challenges have included things like "smile at three different people today" or "tell someone a knock-knock joke" or "hang some new artwork in your home or office."  


You don't have to continue any of these things.  They are one-day challenges.  But sometimes you find something that really makes a difference and you want to continue it.  Soon it becomes part of a healthier life for you.  One thing I have really noticed is that it keeps me thinking all day long about making better choices.  So even if I haven't continued any of the daily challenges, I have been thinking more about my physical and emotional health, which makes me stop and rethink my daily choices.  This by itself is a change for the better in my life.


Wouldn't it be great if we could have these same small daily challenges for our spiritual lives?  We could get an email each day that challenged us to maybe:  

1. Read the first chapter of the Book of John
2. Take 5 minutes to thank God for the blessings in your life
3. Find your favorite praise song on a CD, Ipod or YouTube and sing along with it
4. Ask someone today how you can pray for them, and then do it.

Wow... how would that change your spiritual health?  It really is getting me thinking... perhaps I will prepare a Spiritual Challenge for Lent 2012 for the church FaceBook page... any takers?

Father,

With so much talk these days about our physical and emotional health, help us to not forget about the importance of our spiritual health.  Let us all take on that daily challenge for our own  life.  Amen.

Joys: Trying to make better daily choice and seeing it pay off; continued gorgeous weather... making some plans to get out in it; having Richard at home