Digest It

Part: Feed Yourself

Look back first. Did you retell each study this week? Check the retell habit specifically — not just “did you read,” but “did you tell it back.”

Now the back half of the method: 🥣 Digest. The four questions take the swallowed story and turn it into faith and obedience. Open to Luke 5:1–11 — read it aloud twice, retell it quickly (that’s a habit now), then walk all four questions on the hand:

1. What does this passage show me about God?
2. What does it show me about people — and about me?
3. What will I obey — a command, an example, or a promise?
4. Who will I tell this week?

Dwell on the second question — “and me?” — and on the obedience question. That’s where a study stops being about a story and starts being about you.

A study that ends without an “I will” is just information.

Obedience over knowledge — and never with shame. The goal isn’t a nice thought; it’s a concrete, datable action.

I used to end a study with a nice thought instead of a concrete obedience. The turn: from insight to a specific thing you’ll do, by a specific day.

Practice: take today’s passage all the way to a specific, datable “I will.” Not “be kinder.” Push vague into concrete.

Your “I will”: write it with a name and a date. An idea with no name and no date produces nothing.

Close in prayer, by name — and no shame when we report back next week.