The following is a devotion from my message series 10 Steps to Freedom. I hope these devotionals help you experience lasting freedom in Jesus!
STEP EIGHT: day 4
Establish guardrails to protect your freedom
The guardrails you need to have in your life will be customized to your areas of struggle and the freedom you’re trying to establish. But to help get your mind started with ideas, here are twelve examples of guardrails that could be good to establish in your life to protect your freedom:
- Join and be active in a church small group.
- Get a strong internet filter in your home.
- Exercise for at least three hours per week.
- Go to bed earlier and get a minimum of seven hours of sleep a night.
- Take a course or ask for personal coaching with your finances.
- Remove all the alcohol from your home.
- Make some new friends.
- Buy an old-fashioned alarm clock and don’t sleep with the phone next to your bed.
- Don’t ride in a car or eat a meal alone with a person of the opposite gender.
- Get some preemptive marriage counseling before your little problems become big problems.
- Start giving 10% of your income to the church to keep your heart right.
- Join a Freedom Group to work through your issues with other believers.
These guardrails aren’t for everyone, but they are guardrails people have established to protect their mental, physical, emotional and spiritual freedom.
QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
- How many of the above guardrails do you currently have in place? Which ones might you need to add?
- Do the guardrails mentioned above spark any ideas for some additional guardrails you can establish in your life to protect your freedom?
You can read other devotional entries for 10 Steps to Freedom here.
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