This lesson continues the series on Spiritual Disciplines.
Although journaling is not commanded in Scripture, it is remarkable how often Bible characters recorded their thoughts. In fact, we could easily view the Bible as a series of journals!
Recording your thoughts, prayers, and experiences in a journal provides several benefits to the writer. In addition, keeping notes during Bible study or meditation is tremendously valuable, as is simply recording your blessings – those things for which you thank God. Perhaps the most powerful thing about keeping a journal may be the memories you leave for others!
There is probably no better way to tie the other Spiritual Disciplines together than to keep a journal.
“So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.”
Joshua 4:4-7 (NIV)