We have many different aspects of our lives that are our seperate in some reguard, but connected and interacting with each other at the same time. The spiritual disciplines can help each different aspect of our human being come under the control of our spirit.
Fasting helps our body, specificially our appetite learn that it is not a spoiled child who gets everything that it wants. Dallas Willard calls these Spiritual disciplines of abstinence that strengthen our not doing muscles. They help us resist.
Solitude helps move the social aspect of our lives into its proper place. Instead of others being the defining voice in our lives. God’s voice becomes ke. We are no longer desperarte in our relationships to find worth, popularity, love, or acceptance. Solitude helps us find those things in God.
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