Good Habits and Bad Habits
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People say that a habit is second nature. Everyone has their own nature. However, it is their habits that have a huge effect on them. We all have good and bad habits. Good habits are helpful for our life of faith, but bad habits are obstacles to the gospel. That is why God has taught us that we should get rid of our old bad habits and replace them with good habits so that we can be born again and enter the kingdom of heaven. Through the Bible, let us think about good and bad habits and get rid of all our bad habits to be born again. A habit of disobeying God’s word 3,500 years ago, the Israelites came out of Egypt and headed toward Canaan. Among them were those who had a habit of grumbling. As the desert journey grew longer, they were so hungry, thirsty and exhausted that they kept grumbling against God, and many others began to align themselves with them. Even after God gave them enough water and food, they continued to grumble, saying they were tired of the same food. Finally, most of the Israelites fell in the desert because they had a habit of complaining during their 40-year journey through the desert. Through what happened to them, God clearly shows us what kind of habit we should have while walking in the desert of faith toward the spiritual Canaan.
Jer 22:21 “I warned you when you felt secure, but you said, ‘I will not listen!’ This has been your way from your youth; you have not obeyed me.”
Although they were secure under God’s protection, they said they would not listen to God. Then God said it had been their habit not to obey Him from their youth. Could they receive God’s grace and mercy? Ultimately, they could never receive God’s blessing. From a spiritual point of view, this earth is a prison where sinners from heaven gather. If they try to enjoy their life to the fullest and get everything they want, then it is not a self-reflective attitude that sinners must have in prison. We cannot go back to our heavenly home if we have the habit of grumbling and complaining because circumstances are not favorable to us. Let us reflect on ourselves to see whether or not we’ve been trying to justify our disobedience to God with thoughts such as, ‘It’s okay to do this,” “He also did that, but nothing happened.’ When we do something wrong, we feel guilty at first. However, if we keep doing wrong and it becomes a habit, we become unhesitant in doing wrong and fail to recognize our sin. We must immediately get rid of the habit of grumbling and disobeying God.