God was always worried about the hearts of His people being drawn away.

“Every day, God’s people are called to devote to God their whole body and mind, their feelings and desires, their futures and their failures. This is what it means to love God with your whole heart.”

- Tim Mackie

Ahab’s rejection of God was a choice to be formed elsewhere.

To be human is to be formed and shaped by the very things that fill our lives.

The reality is that everybody worships.

The question is, what is it that we are worshipping?

We are not always aware of what forms and shapes us.

“Christian worship, we should recognize, is essentially a counter-formation to those rival liturgies we are often immersed in, cultural practices that covertly capture our loves and longings, miscalibrating them, orienting us to rival versions of the good life. This is why worship is the heart of discipleship.”

- James K. A. Smith

Spiritual Disciplines

Solitude and Silence

Fasting

Prayer

Scripture Memorization

How can I choose to be formed and shaped by simply being with Jesus this week?

What kind of counter-formation needs to take place in my life so I can fully enjoy the life that Jesus desires for me?