Habits of Grace by David Mathis

Author:David Mathis [Mathis, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL012120/REL012070/REL023000
ISBN: 9781433550478
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2016-02-11T16:00:00+00:00

54 D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1960), 1:38.

55 Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, rev. ed. (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2014), 200–17.

56 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, n.d.), 4:1478, quoted in Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 214.

57 Enough could be said about feasting as a spiritual discipline to warrant its own full chapter, but perhaps I can do even better by sending you to Joe Rigney’s book-length treatment in The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015). Some readers might suppose that the overstuffed bellies of the American church hardly need any instruction on feasting, since we’ve grown so accustomed to it, while fasting is the discipline that is grossly underserved. It is true that fasting is largely overlooked and too often forgotten, but true feasting is also in decline through familiarity, overuse, and lack of spiritual purpose. When every day becomes a feast, no day is truly one. We have need to recover the spiritual significance of feasting together in faith—not simply indulging, but explicitly celebrating together, on special occasions, the bounty and kindness of our Creator and Redeemer. For the Christian, our normal daily consumption is to be characterized by enough restraint that feasting is something we can rise to on special occasions, by faith and in good conscience, rather than being the baseline of every day. Daily restraint both keeps our stomachs primed for times of fasting and makes possible a kind of special indulgence on feast days.

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