Carry each other's burdens and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
— Galatians 6:2 (NIV)
CS Lewis
MOST OF US KNOW we're "supposed" to do devotions every day. And so we slog along, crack open our Bible every day and hope to pick something up by osmosis before we forget what we've read. Why do devotions seem so ... pointless? What do you do when you know you should be doing them, but it just feels empty and insincere to do them? Do devotions even matter?
Our devotion time is not to be an end in itself; it is to be a spiraling process of ever-expanding openness and movement into God. It is in these moments of devotion we foster a conviction about the kind of life we are to live, clarity about our role in the world, and a sense of corporate mission and ministry.