The Power of Habits
I’m an avid reader. Even when I was a young high school student, I would stay up until one and 2 o’clock in the morning reading. That was when I was still young and had no problem getting up at 6:30 to go to school the next day. Things have changed since then; I’m not that young any more. Smile.
Recently I have read two books on habits and how they impact your life. One was The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business by Charles Duhigg and the other one I read is Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones.
As a committed Christ follower, I look at the world through spiritual lenses. As I thought about the habits that I put into practice in my own life, I want to be sure to put my spiritual habits on the front burner.
Christians will never develop a deep love for God without spending time in the spiritual disciplines or more commonly called having a devotional life. These are practices that anyone you read about throughout history and even people you know today who are godly people, have implemented spiritual disciplines into their daily life.
Christianity is more about a relationship than a religion. Just like any other relationship, the only way that there is depth in the relationship is quality and quantity of time spent together. One of the means to develop spiritual depth is through these holy habits.
So I look at these books on developing habits, and I have to think about how I am developing the holy habits in my life that put into practice spiritual disciplines that Christians have practice throughout the centuries. There are no shortcuts. There is no other easy way. It’s persistent consistency of practicing the spiritual disciplines on a daily basis. I have to reflect daily as to how I am doing to keep faithful to the routines that form me spiritually.
How have you practiced these holy habits in your life?
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