It is a sure thing - Tommy must go. (If you are confused about Tommy, go back and read my first blog entry). Discipline is very helpful in such an endeavor. Yet discipline is not the point. The point of all this Tommy-Talk is freedom. Paul would say in 2 Cor. "where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom." He would say in Galatians, "It is for freedom that He set us free." Discipline is a tool that serves us on the journey toward freedom.

Yet if we are not vigilant, discipline can become a cruel task master bringing pharisaical rigidity, guilt, shame and shackles. So to avoid such nonsense I ate an ice cream cone from Dairy Queen yesterday and loved it. Discipline out of balance would have screamed at me. But discipline in it's place said, "enjoy."

To be sure much of what I blog about is the pursuit of discipline for the sake of freedom. Yet I want to be sure that it is in it's place as a servant to the freedom Christ has for us.

Peace and Joy
Rob