Godly disciplines not only help us grow spiritually but are a great means of how the Lord ministers to our inner man and encourages our dependence on the Spirit of Christ. It is much more important for us to be disciplined in our spiritual life than in our physical life. Many suffer the loss of sleep, time, and money to succeed in a job, hobby or some game. But many will not suffer any discipline to be able to grow in their spiritual walk with the Lord.
The busyness of our lives and the modern church culture can rob us from being attentive to simple devotion and discipline with the Lord, as one brother said: “When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.”
There are some disciplines that are for our private walk with the Lord and some disciplines are for the assembling of the body of Christ.
There are clear Scriptural directives on traditions and practices that the early Church practiced so we can emulate them.
It is with such confidence we can meet together as the Church, over 2000 years later, and still practice many of the simple disciplines that those early Assemblies practiced.
With the same joy, we can walk in and practice the same godly disciplines—in our own private spiritual life—that the Apostles practiced. May God give us fresh vision and encouragement to seek to do what is written in Scripture and follow the ways of the Apostles traditions; not the modern ideas of men.