“Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit.”― The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis.
Habits we have will either take us to wrong destination
or right destination. If we have cultivated good habits then surely we are
walking in the right path and if we have cultivated bad habits then surely we
are walking in the wrong path.
Bad habits.
We all have one or more bad habits attached to us
which may be fun to us but it can be annoying to others around us. Let us now
identify some bad habits most of us have which will not allow us to live
according to the Word of God. Some are talking evil, some are gossiping, some
are drunkards, some are smokers, some are porn addicts, some are drug addicts,
some are movie addicts, some are party addicts, some are mall addicts, some
love violence, some love criticising, some love fault finding, some love to be
lazy, some love politics, some love to correct others, some love to blame
others, some are selfish, some are greedy
and so on as the list is endless. When we are having one or more of the
bad habits we have to understand whatever we want to do we will not be able to
do and whatever we hate to do we will be doing.
Good habits
We all may have cultivated one or more good habits
after coming to prayers. Some of the good habits are
Start and end our day with prayer, reading the
Bible, reading the book of saints, reciting scriptures daily, praying for
others, praying for those who persecute, blame and condemn us, increasing in
faith, speaking words of encouragement to the broken ones, praying for our
enemies, rising early even on holidays, respecting others, forgiving others,
helping the needy, blessing everyone and so on as the list is endless. We have
to understand that we have to fight very hard to break a bad habit and
cultivate a good habit.
Let us study the Word of God daily so that every
bad habits in us we will break and cultivate good habits so that good habits
may flourish and bad habits may fade in our life.
We have to understand that because of being in
fellowship with the world and also with the pleasures of our flesh we have
cultivated most of the bad habits and we have switch over to have fellowship
God and His Word so that we may be inspired by God to cultivate good habits and give up our bad
habits.
Every good habit we cultivate with the
help of God will help us automatically to overcome every bad habit we have.
Date: 17:05: 2020.
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