I am Habit
What are the habits you want to develop? Dieting? Exercising regularly? Keeping your house clean? Maybe you want to stop complaining and start praising others (Yes, complaining is a habit too)? Gossiping is a nasty, ugly, vicious habit.
Bad habits are like chains around your neck, that keep you from achieving God’s best. When you accept those habits as “just who I am,” you are accepting defeat. You are letting bad habits keep you from God’s best for your life. Those bad habits are holding you into a mediocre life.
For me, I can be consistent for about 2 weeks, and then everything falls apart. With every failure, I have to fight myself yet again. I have to decide, against what is easy, to keep fighting, clawing tooth and nail, towards what I know is good.
Developing a habit, instituting a new habit, is only 20% head knowledge, and 80% action. Diet books are so successful, not because we don’t know how to eat but because we need an action plan.
Success, living out good habits consistently, requires overcoming yourself, your bad habits, and feeding the good habits that lead you towards excellence.
Can God use me if I cannot keep my house clean? Certainly! And I know that He is using me while I am learning to be organized. At the same time, I know that being organized will free me up to pursue ministry in other areas.
God can continue to use you while you struggle with overcoming these bad habits, but these habits hold you back from living the best life that God has for you.
Bad habits are easy to develop, but hard to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. Anything worthwhile, is worth struggling over. Anything worthwhile is worth continuing on until you have achieved success.
Tags: Personal Development
