Spiritual Discipline – Holding the frontline?

I learned something about myself this week. I need stability in my life to start new endeavors. I embarked this week to begin this blog and then promptly went on a business trip. I thought to myself that I could do this with my free time in the hotel room. HA! ... HA HA! What a joke! Here it is Thursday and I just made my first blog entry. To those who committed to follow this blog, I apologize. Interestingly enough, the teaching studies I had been doing this week involved spiritual disciplines. Here I am looking at how to excel at this Christian walk on one hand, and on the other, failing to follow through on a new spiritual discipline. It is interesting how the evil one and the Holy Spirit are always hitting us in the same place at the same time. It is like the frontlines of a battle. Sometimes you gain ground…others you lose ground. I have come to realize though that I really am not one of the major combatants. I am the inhabitant of the land and my actions either "support the cause" or "aid and abed the enemy", but the battle is much larger than me. So I apologize for giving aid to the Holy Spirit this week, for not following through on this small commitment. I see now that I am easily distracted from fight and when I am distracted I let the enemy win. So I pray for focus and hope that you stick with me on this journey even when I get inconsistent. And when I get inconsistent that you feel free to prod me back to the fight. Together, we can push back the enemy and gain new ground for our cause if only in our own lives.